Why script fails with "ImportError: cannot import name miscutils" error ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Have scripts that are utilizing /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py but attempts to execute this fails with the following.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py", line 20, in ?
    import rhnserver
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 21, in ?
    import rpcServer
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 12, in ?
    import clientCaps
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/clientCaps.py", line 10, in ?
    import capabilities
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/capabilities.py", line 4, in ?
    import up2dateErrors
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateErrors.py", line 14, in ?
    from yum.Errors import RepoError, YumBaseError
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 44, in ?
    import rpmsack
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 20, in ?
    from rpmUtils import miscutils
ImportError: cannot import name miscutils

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10

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