Error when trying to register client machine "ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dmidecodemod.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32"

Issue

• When trying to register a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8(x86_64) machine, it failed with following error message.

File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 29, in ?
    from up2date_client import rhnreg
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 24, in ?
    import hardware
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py", line 26, in ?
    import dmidecode
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dmidecode.py", line 29, in ?
    from dmidecodemod import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dmidecodemod.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32