[rhn-users] up2date broken

[Jesse]

Greetings all. I’m new to the list. 

Having trouble with up2date. Using the command line utility in the following 
way. 

up2date –nox –u 

The app fails just before RPM dependencies are resolved. The following line 
prints on the terminal… 

xloadimage-4.1-36.RHEL3.x86 ########################## Done.
An error has occurred:
exceptions.TypeError
See /var/log/up2date for more information 

A tail of /var/log/up2date reveals the following… 

[Fri Nov 18 03:01:31 2005] up2date updating login info
[Fri Nov 18 03:01:31 2005] up2date logging into up2date server
[Fri Nov 18 03:01:32 2005] up2date successfully retrieved authentication 
token from up2date server
[Fri Nov 18 03:01:32 2005] up2date availablePackageList from network
[Fri Nov 18 03:01:32 2005] up2date Unable to import repomd support so repomd 
support will not be available
[Fri Nov 18 03:01:36 2005] up2date installing packages: 
['curl-7.10.6-7.rhel3', 'curl-devel-7.10.6-7.rhel3', 'ethereal-0.10.
[Fri Nov 18 03:01:36 2005] up2date   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1265, in 
?
   sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 800, in main
   fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1137, in batchRun
   batch.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 90, in run
   self.__installPackages()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 174, in 
__installPackages
   self.kernelsToInstall = up2date.installPackages(self.packagesToInstall, 
self.rpmCallback)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 695, in 
installPackages
   if providename in cfg['pkgsToInstallNotUpdate']: 

Cant use the gnome version either. It just freezes. I tried 
force-reinstalling the RPM for up2date. The RMP installs fine, but up2date 
still behaves the same way. 

Info about our system/kernel - Linux circle.rfc1532.com 2.4.21-32.ELsmp #1 
SMP Fri Apr 15 21:03:28 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3 for AMD64/Intel EM64T) 

Any help will be greatly appreciated. 

Kind regards, 

Jesse