[lug] RedHat Network & Python Droppings

[Ken Kinder]

This is certainly a bug. It basicly means the program is accessing an 
attribute of an object that doesn't exist. Maybe you should report it to Red 
Hat - unless of course Red Hat Network registration is required to do so. :)

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 02:54 pm, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Trying to set up the RedHat Network stuff on a couple of machines that
> are older RedHat 6.2 boxes.
>
> Using all of the updated RPM's necessary.
>
> When I run rhn_register all goes well until the point where the machine
> asks for username and password (which I have).  I put in the username
> and password and e-mail address and get...
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 119, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 100, in main
>     tui.main()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 1033, in main
>     tui.run()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 982, in run
>     win = self.windows[index](self.screen, self)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 422, in __init__
>     self.emailContactButton.setValue("*")
> AttributeError: setValue
>
> Any of you Python-heads have any idea what Python was trying to tell me
> here?
>
> It looks to me like it's unhappy with a value of "*" which I never
> input, so I'd bet this is some goofy bug -- but really don't have a way
> to tell for sure.
>
> I e-mailed RedHat and their answer was "use the X interface".. well,
> hmm.  Morons!  This is a server.  It has no X, nor would I ever PUT X on
> it.  Sigh... Especially bad response considering I'm talking to them
> about spending some serious money on RHN.
>
> Not to mention it's halfway around the world and I'd have to tunnel X
> via SSH anyway...

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