Traditional client migrated to salt-minion fails with "File-usr-lib-python2-7-site-packages-up2date-client-up2dateAuth-py"

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Environment

SUSE Manager 4.3
Oracle Linux 7.9

Situation

Bootstrap the Oracle Linux 7 server to the SUMA server with the traditional method first, then migrate the system to use salt (salt-minion).

All goes well until "yum update" is executed:

OL7# yum update
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 375, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 170, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 263, in getOptionsConfig
self.conf
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1079, in <lambda>
conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 420, in _getConfig
self.plugins.run('init')
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 188, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/ulninfo.py", line 23, in init_hook
login_info = up2dateAuth.getLoginInfo(timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 248, in getLoginInfo
login(timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 208, in login
systemId = getSystemId()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 41, in getSystemId
log.log_me("ERROR - Unable to read XML in %s - %s" % (path, sys.exc_info()[1]))
NameError: global name 'sys' is not defined

Resolution

Remove the traditional stack from the Oracle Linux Server:

# rpm -e spacewalk-client-setup spacewalk-check python2-spacewalk-check python2-spacewalk-client-setup yum-rhn-plugin mgr-daemon yum-plugin-ulninfo python2-spacewalk-client-tools spacewalk-client-tools

Then proceed to update the server which should now succeed:

# yum update

Cause

Mixed salt and traditional stack packages installed on the client.

Additional Information

Un-Register traditional minions with SLES OS:

https://www.suse.com/de-de/support/kb/doc/?id=000018170

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