[Spacewalk-list] Client execution returned "Fatal error in Python code occured [[6]]" (code -1)

[Clifford Perry]

Santi Saez wrote:
> 
> Hi Clifford,
> 
> El 9/2/09 14:00, Clifford Perry escribió:
> 
>> First suggest - upgrade version of up2date -
>> -rw-rw-r-- 4 ftp ftp 2142836 Jul 01 2008 up2date-4.7.1-17.el4.src.rpm
>> lftp ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4AS/en/os/SRPMS>
>>
>> I have seen this error message before, but quick search in bugzilla I
>> did not see it. One suggestion also is to look at the up2date config
>> file, I think there was a bug where if you had trailing ';' at the end
>> of config option lines, it could also mess up up2date.
> 
> # grep ";" /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> pkgSkipList=;
> pkgsToInstallNotUpdate=kernel;kernel-modules;kernel-devel;
> adminAddress=root at localhost;
> fileSkipList=;
> disallowConfChanges=noReboot;sslCACert;useNoSSLForPackages;noSSLServerURL;serverURL;disallowConfChanges; 
> 
> removeSkipList=kernel*;
> 
> Very strange.. finally, reinstalling and deleting all data from 
> "/var/spool/up2date" has solved the problem :-/
> 
> After re-installing the package:
> 
> # rpm -qa up2date
> up2date-4.6.2-7.el4.1
> 
> # grep ";" /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
> pkgSkipList=;
> pkgsToInstallNotUpdate=kernel;kernel-modules;kernel-devel;
> adminAddress=root at localhost;
> fileSkipList=;
> disallowConfChanges=noReboot;sslCACert;useNoSSLForPackages;noSSLServerURL;serverURL;disallowConfChanges; 
> 
> removeSkipList=kernel*;
> 
> up2date is the same version (installed from spacewalk-client repo), and 
> config file appears similar, so the problem perhaps was in 
> "/var/spool/up2date".. :-/
> 
> Regards,
> 

doh - up2date cache - sorry - use to not looking for the first few steps 
in troubleshooting up2date issues anymore - front line support in Red 
Hat covers those pretty well for me! :)

Cliff.