[Spacewalk-list] rhn-plugin error

[Crook, Parker]

Justin,

I have yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-6.el5.6 installed

-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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