up2date...
 

Hi

anybody encounter the errors listed below when i run up2date --register?

An error has occurred:
exceptions.AttributeError
See /var/log/up2date for more information

In /var/log/up2date i have:

File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1265, in ?
sys.exit(main() or 0)
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 728, in main
from up2date_client import gui
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 60, in ?
import rhnregGui
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnregGui.py", line 13, in ?
socket.setdefaulttimeout(1)

I've not seen any issues doing up2date with my RH EL AS 3.

As an FYI up2date starts a GUI so you need to be running X Windows (Gnome or KDE).
Look at startx if this isn't running. I've often seen odd error messages when trying to start a GUI before I've started X windows (I use Exceed on my Windows Client to allow X windows (including up2date) to start there from my Unix/Linux servers.

You can also run up2date without a gui by passing the --nox option.

up2date -u --nox (To Update)
up2date -i --nox <package_name> (To install a package)

Reminds me of funny bumper sticker I saw:

metaphors be with you!