Last week I had to upgrade one of our old RHEL3 servers in order to get it to address disks larger than 2TB. I did the upgrade from CD, and it went fairly smoothly, except up2date would not run after the box came back up.
It gave me the following error:
[root@x up2date]# Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 27, in ?
from up2date_client import repoDirector
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 5, in ?
import rhnChannel
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnChannel.py", line 10, in ?
import up2dateAuth
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 5, in ?
import rpcServer
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 23, in ?
from rhn import rpclib
ImportError: No module named rhnIt turns out that there is no “really easy” way to fix it, but these directions on spaceblog do work. Basically it involves removing a lot of packages and re-adding them. The problem is related to python, so rather than remove the entire list of packages, I focused only on those relating to python and up2date:
libxml2-python
popt
pyOpenSSL
python
rhnlib
rhpl
up2date
Make sure not to remove these packages:
rpm
rpm-libs
rpm-python
Or you will break rpm and not be able to add the packages back after you remove them. All told, this is a grisly process, and you will have to use rpm -e --nodeps in order to get it done. This sucks, but up2date will work everything out once you can get it running again.
We saw this today, too. Shame that it hasn’t been fixed even as recent as RHEL4U6, but we’re good now. Thanks!