Bug 224375

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061219 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.9 pango-text

Description of problem:
I have been installing all of the updates as they become available.  I have been able to update using yum, but the graphical interface does not work.  Upon its crash, I was instructed to go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla and file a report.  Although I have seen this problem listed in Bugzilla, I have not seen it listed for the PPC.

I am using a PowerBook G4, 1.33 GHz processor.  I have also noticed this issue on a dual 1 GHz PowerMac G4.

I have attempted to use the rm /var/lib/rpm/__db* and rpm --rebuilddb in the terminal.  This fixed it yesterday night (01/24/2006), but it did not fix it this morning (01/25/2006)

The following dump file was created on my PowerBook G4:
Component: Software Updater
Summary: TB8a9160cb comps.py:143:parse_package_list:CompsException

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 659, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 655, in main
    pup.run()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 494, in run
    self.doRefresh()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 269, in doRefresh
    self.reposSetup(pbar)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 153, in reposSetup
    self.doGroupSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 408, in doGroupSetup
    self.comps.add(groupfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 339, in add
    group = Group(elem)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 57, in __init__
    self.parse(elem)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 133, in parse
    self.parse_package_list(child)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 143, in parse_package_list
    raise CompsException
CompsException

Local variables in innermost frame:
genre: optinoal
self: Graphics
package: digikam
packagelist_elem: <Element 'packagelist' at 0x10713200>
child: <Element 'packagereq' at 0x10713140>

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
version 1.2.8 Release 1.fc6

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launched Software Update
2. Crash occured, giving me the above dump file.
3.

Actual Results:
The following message come up:
Exception Occured

An unhandled exception has occured.  THis is most likely a bug.  Please save the crash dump and file a detailed bug report against Software Updater at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla

It then gave the contents of the dump file, as seen above.

Expected Results:
I expected to have a list of updates, or at least a message saying no updates were requried/fould.

Additional info: