[Spacewalk-list] rhn-plugin error

[Justin Sherrill]

Crook, Parker wrote:
> Justin,
> 
> I have yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-6.el5.6 installed

I'd try using the most recent official build located in spacewalk's
client repo:


http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.7-client/RHEL/5/i386/yum-rhn-plugin-0.7.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm

-Justin

> 
> -PC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Justin Sherrill
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:54 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] rhn-plugin error
> 
> Crook, Parker wrote:
>> After getting all of the spacewalk client tools packages added to the
>> package list for kickstarting CentOS 5.4 clients, I noticed that yum was
>> broken on my kickstarted machines:
>>
>>
>>
>> [root at localhost ~]# yum update
>>
>> Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, protect-packages, rhnplugin
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>>
>>     yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>>
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
>>
>>     errcode = main(args)
>>
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
>>
>>     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>>
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig
>>
>>     self.conf
>>
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 664, in
>> <lambda>
>>
>>     conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
>>
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 253, in
>> _getConfig
>>
>>     self.plugins.run('init')
>>
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run
>>
>>     func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
>>
>>   File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 145, in init_hook
>>
>>     repo = RhnRepo(channel)
>>
>>   File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 243, in __init__
>>
>>     self.metadata_cookie = 'cookie'
>>
>> AttributeError: can't set attribute
>>
>>
>>
>> So I looked around and found out that if you comment out the lines below
>> (in /usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py), all is well:
>>
>>         self.metadata_cookie = 'cookie'
>>
>>         self.metadata_expire = 0
>>
>>
>>
>> So I went ahead and added the following sed script to my kickstart file
>> in order to take care of this during provisioning:
>>
>>
>>
>> sed -i -e
>> 's/.*self\.metadata_cookie.*/#&/;s/.*self\.metadata_expire.*/#&/;'
>> /usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py
>>
>>
>>
>> Anybody else out there that has run across this?  Is this a viable
>> solution to the problem?  if so I hope this helps someone else.
>>
>>
>>
>> -PC
>>
>>
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> What version of yum-rhn-plugin do you have installed?
> 
> -Justin
> 
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Justin Sherrill, RHCA          1801 Varsity Drive.
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Red Hat, Inc.