Re: RH 8.0 Client

Here is a list of the up2date/rhn stuff included in RH8.0:

up2date-3.0.7-1.i386.rpm
up2date-gnome-3.0.7-1.i386.rpm
rhn-applet-2.0.0-28.i386.rpm
rhnlib-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Note that there is no rhn_register, so this, at least, is different.  I
edited /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date as you would before RH8.0, but, as
there is no rhn_register, I couldn't edit that.  When I tried to run
up2date, I got this:

[root@karabou rhn]# 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

Then I tried to run the rhn-applet.  It died with a traceback that was
in a window with scrollbars but they didn't work, so I couldn't get the
traceback.  However, the following message was on the terminal window I
ran it from:

[root@karabou rhn]# /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui
could not figure out kernel

The machine is running a custom kernel, but the kernel rpms are still
there.

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:58, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:04:56PM -0500, Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:
> > Is there a way to get a RH8.0 machine to work with the current server
> > with the version of up2date that ships with it, or do I need to remove
> > the up2date and redhat network software that comes with it:
> [snip]
> 
> The 8.0 up2date stuff should work reasonably well as a client. Sometimes
> it explodes with a traceback after it finishes applying the updates (due
> to some new server-side thing that's not implemented in current yet --
> look back at the archives earlier this month for a subject line
> mentioning "weird traceback"). It actually applies the updates properly,
> though. AFAIK setup is no different than with 7.x clients.
> 
> -Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>
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     Lawrence MacIntyre     865.574.8696     [email protected]
                Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Center for High Performance Information Infrastructure Technology

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