up2date crashed during update

[Art Okunev <art okunev hostway com au>]

Hello All,

  We  are  running  RHEL  ES 3 update 4. Ordinary web sever - no third
  party packages or heavy customizations. Server was regularly updated
  using up2date without any problems.

  Couple  of  days ago I decided to upgrade system to update5. Up2date
  downloaded headers, downloaded RPMs, upgraded couple of packages and
  then abnormally exited with error message.

  Now when I trying to run up2date it dies with the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1174, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 668, in main
    up2dateAuth.updateLoginInfo()
  File "up2dateAuth.py", line 151, in updateLoginInfo
  File "up2dateAuth.py", line 105, in login
  File "up2dateAuth.py", line 49, in maybeUpdateVersion
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 228, in getVersion
    release, version = getOSVersionAndRelease()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 221, in getOSVersionAndRelease
    raise up2dateErrors.RpmError(
up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error.  The message was:
Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.
If you get this error, try running

                rpm --rebuilddb

   Of course, I tried to do rpm --rebuilddb but it does not help.

   Any suggestions?

   I've  got  bunch  of  RPMs  in  /var/spool/up2date (which have been
   downloaded  by  up2date  just before it crashed). Will it be a good
   idea  to  install all of them manually or it would be better to fix
   up2date first and then apply updates usual way?
  

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Best regards,
 Art

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