[TriLUG] RH8 up2date Crashing

Elliot Peele ebpeele2 at pams.ncsu.edu
Wed Jan 8 15:25:31 EST 2003


Ken,

Up2date in 8.0 should work with the version of current that we are
running. Due to an api change in the client the gui front end for
up2date does not work. You will need to run up2date with the --nox
option.

Elliot

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 10:42, Ken Mink wrote:
> Is the TriLUG Current server up? I tried to use up2date against it
> following the directions in the FAQ and up2date just crashes. I have not
> tried up2date before, so user error is a high probability.
> 
> Ken
> 
> The error message from up2date:
> # up2date
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 801, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 463, in main
>     ret = configdlg.main(options.firstboot)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 365, in main
>     gui = Gui(firstboot)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 79, in
> __init__
>     self.setInitialValues()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 95, in
> setInitialValues
>     self.serverUrls = configUtils.getServerUrls()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configUtils.py", line 40, in
> getServerUrls
>     serverUrls = rpcServer.doCall(s.servers.list)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 107, in doCall
>     ret = apply(method, args, kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 821, in __call__
>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 126, in
> _request
>     verbose=self._verbose
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 141,
> in request
>     return self.parse_response(fd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 160,
> in parse_response
>     p.close()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 393, in close
>     self._parser.Parse("", 1) # end of data
> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
> 
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 20:57, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 17:22, Thomas C. Meggs wrote:
> > > I say, Apt-Rpm! ;)
> > > 
> > 
> > You can also use apt for RPM from the TriLUG servers, which may be
> > useful if the freshrpms.net server is slow.
> > See the member services FAQ question 4.6 for instructions:
> > http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/TriLUG-mail-faq-4.html#ss4.6
> > 
> > --Jeremy
> > 
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> 
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