Up2date failure ?

I was running up2date trying to get down about two weeks of updates. At one
point in while it was installing some packages, my ssh session got
terminated. When I was able to get back in on the virtual machine console
(s390 platform), the ssh session and up2date had completely terminated. I
decided to reboot the system and clean out /var/spool/up2date to try for a
CLEAN process. Now, everytime I try any up2date command other than
--configure, I get this:
 
[root@lnxrh00 rhn]# up2date --show-channels
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1150, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 642, in main
    up2dateAuth.updateLoginInfo()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 137, in
updateLoginInfo
    loginInfo = login()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 104, in login
    maybeUpdateVersion()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 51, in
maybeUpdateVersion
    systemVer = up2dateUtils.getVersion()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 205, in
getVersion
    release, version = getOSVersionAndRelease()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 198, 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


/Thomas Kern
/301-903-2211