[lug] RedHat Network & Python Droppings

[Nate Duehr]

Followup on this...

RedHat says they're planning an errata release for RedHat Network 
software for RH 6.2 soon, and it's "late in the QA process" so should be 
fairly soon...

Nate

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...
>