[Spacewalk-list] rhn-plugin error

[Justin Sherrill]

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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