Bug 1005438

Summary: yum exits immediately instead of running transaction
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth>
Component: yumAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: admiller, ffesti, firas.alkafri, packaging-team-maint, tla, zpavlas
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Last Closed: 2013-09-09 00:05:29 UTC Type: Bug
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Description T.C. Hollingsworth 2013-09-06 23:13:11 UTC
Created attachment 795014 [details]
verbose output from yum

Description of problem:
yum is exiting immediately when it says "Running Transaction", without running the transaction

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  Installed: rpm-4.10.3.1-2.fc18.x86_64 at 2013-09-04 02:31
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2013-08-26 08:54
  Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> at 2013-08-26

  Installed: yum-3.4.3-54.fc18.noarch at 2013-04-15 00:05
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2013-04-04 16:34
  Committed: Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas> at 2013-04-04

  Installed: yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.31-10.fc18.noarch at 2013-04-14 23:44
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2013-02-18 15:06
  Committed: Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas> at 2013-02-18

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
`sudo yum update -y`

Actual results:
No transaction is performed

Expected results:
Packages are installed/updated

Additional info:
see attachment for verbose output from yum

Comment 1 T.C. Hollingsworth 2013-09-09 00:05:29 UTC
Looks like this is the empty %pretrans lua scriptlet thing in Firefox.  Strangely, when yum crashes for this something eats the signal so zsh doesn't tell me about it, otherwise I'd have noticed it was this a lot earlier.  :-(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1005253 ***