Registration (traditional) of SLES11SP4 fails with ImportError: No module named backports.ssl_match_hostname

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Environment

SUSE Manager 4.1 Server

Situation

Registration of SLES11SP4 (as traditional client) against SUSE Manager 4.1 fails with following error message:

REGISTRATION
------------
* registering
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 25, in <module>
    from rhn.connections import idn_puny_to_unicode
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 14, in <module>
    from rhn import SSL
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/SSL.py", line 47, in <module>
    from backports.ssl_match_hostname import match_hostname, CertificateError
ImportError: No module named backports.ssl_match_hostname

*** Error: Registering the system failed.

Resolution

Install following package on top of SLES11SP4 client:

python-backports.ssl_match_hostname-3.4.0.2-2.2.x86_64 (from SLES11-SP4-SUSE-Manager-Tools x86_64 channel)

Package can be downloaded from SUSE Manager 4.1:

Login to SUSE Manager 4.1 webUI
Click on "Software" -> "Package Search"
Search for the package mentioned above
Download the package

Cause

Missing dependency.

Status

Reported to Engineering

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