Bug 224288

Summary: Yumex and software updater throw fatal exception errors when loading
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim McConnell <timothy.mcconnell>
Component: yum-metadata-parserAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2007-01-25 17:49:49 UTC Type: ---
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errors from Software updater
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Software updater failure #2
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Yumex failure
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Description Tim McConnell 2007-01-25 02:34:56 UTC
Description of problem:
Yumex and software updater throw fatal exception errors when loading metadata

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Yumex 1.2.2

How reproducible: Launch Yumex or Software updater


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch Yumex or let software updater launch 
2.log in as root or view updates
3. recieve failure notice 
  
Actual results:
both programs fail to launch

Expected results:
to be able to update the OS 

Additional info: both worked fine until after upgrade to 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen kernel

Comment 1 Tim McConnell 2007-01-25 02:34:56 UTC
Created attachment 146488 [details]
errors from Software updater

Comment 2 Tim McConnell 2007-01-25 02:35:58 UTC
Created attachment 146489 [details]
Software updater failure #2

Comment 3 Tim McConnell 2007-01-25 02:36:55 UTC
Created attachment 146490 [details]
Yumex failure

Comment 4 Tim McConnell 2007-01-25 02:38:35 UTC
please advise of any additional files needed. 

Comment 5 Radovan Cihak 2007-01-25 13:43:18 UTC
Created attachment 146537 [details]
Yumex crash dump files

Comment 6 Radovan Cihak 2007-01-25 13:47:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Created an attachment (id=146537) [edit]
> Yumex crash dump files
> 

Sorry I'm posting for the first time, so I've put my comments in wrong place.

This bug(?) appears on my box suddnely. One day it working well next day it keep
crashing. Nothing changed on my system - no installation od updates were made
before crash.

[radovan@bender ~]$ uname -a
Linux bender 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

[radovan@bender ~]$ sudo yumex
GUI Setup Completted
Mirrordetection : best
Yum Version : 3.0.3 (/usr/share/yum-cli)
[Yum] Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Error in routine: BackgroundRunner
Error Type: yum.comps.CompsException
Error Value: 
Traceback: 

('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexUtils.py', 1548, 'run', 'self.rc =
self.runfunc( *self.args )')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexUtils.py , line 1548, in run
    self.rc = self.runfunc( *self.args ) 
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py', 315, 'load_repo_data',
'self.doGroupSetup()')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py , line 315, in
load_repo_data
    self.doGroupSetup() 
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py', 341, 'doGroupSetup',
'yum.YumBase.doGroupSetup( self )')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py , line 341, in
doGroupSetup
    yum.YumBase.doGroupSetup( self ) 
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py', 408, 'doGroupSetup',
'self.comps.add(groupfile)')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py , line 408, in
doGroupSetup
    self.comps.add(groupfile) 
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 339, 'add', 'group = Group(elem)')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 339, in add
    group = Group(elem) 
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 57, '__init__',
'self.parse(elem)')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 57, in __init__
    self.parse(elem) 
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 133, 'parse',
'self.parse_package_list(child)')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 133, in parse
    self.parse_package_list(child) 
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 143, 'parse_package_list',
'raise CompsException')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 143, in
parse_package_list
    raise CompsException 
Component: yumex
Version: 1.2.2
Summary: TB03120a34 yumexmain.py:1045:_runBackground:CompsException

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 1108, in ?
    mainApp = YumexMainApplication()
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 541, in __init__
    self.setup_yum()
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 992, in setup_yum
    if self._runBackground( self.yumexbase.load_repo_data, rload ):
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 1045, in _runBackground
    raise self.backgroundThread.exception
CompsException

Local variables in innermost frame:
runfunc: <bound method yumexBase.load_repo_data of <yumex.yumexBase.yumexBase
object at 0x903012c>>
args: (False,)
self: <__main__.YumexMainApplication instance at 0x902a2ec>


Comment 7 Michael Schwendt 2007-01-25 17:49:49 UTC
Comment 1 to comment 4:


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 224292 ***