System registration using "rhn_register" or "rhnreg_ks" fails with error "ImportError: cannot import name tui"

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Issue

  • Registering a system to Red Hat Satellite-5.x fails:
# rhnreg_ks
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 32, in <module>
    from up2date_client import rhnreg
ImportError: cannot import name rhnreg

# rhn_register
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 26, in <module>
    from up2date_client import tui
ImportError: cannot import name tui

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

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