[lug] RedHat Network & Python Droppings

[Hugh Brown]

Do you have the latest version of the up2date rpms?

Hugh

On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:09, D. Stimits wrote:
> 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
> 
> What happens if you manually make sure the email field is completely
> empty?
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> > 
> > 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...
> > 
> > --