Bug 229725

Summary: Yum 3.0.3 fails during transaction check on update or install
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stephen O. Gombosi <sog>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Stephen O. Gombosi 2007-02-22 23:03:49 UTC
Description of problem:
Yum fails with the following error during transaction check on update or install:

[root@lap369 sog]# yum update kmod-fglrx
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Determining fastest mirrors
Reading repository metadata in from local files
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Resolving Dependencies
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/kernel-module.py:61: DeprecationWarning: getHdrList() will
go away in a future version of Yum.

  for hdr in conduit.getRpmDB().getHdrList():
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for kmod-fglrx to pack into transaction set.
kmod-fglrx-8.33.6-1.2.6.1 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00     
---> Package kmod-fglrx.i686 0:8.33.6-1.2.6.19_1.2911.fc6 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 135, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 442, in
buildTransaction
    self.plugins.run('postresolve', rescode=rescode, restring=restring)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 153, in run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fedorakmod.py", line 273, in postresolve_hook
    newKernels + installedKernels)
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fedorakmod.py", line 228, in installAllKmods
    table = resolveVersions(interesting + modules)
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fedorakmod.py", line 152, in resolveVersions
    elif sameName == None:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 191, in __eq__
    if comparePoEVR(self, other) == 0 and self.arch == other.arch and self.name
== other.name:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 35, in comparePoEVR
    (e2, v2, r2) = (po2.epoch, po2.ver, po2.rel)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'epoch'


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0.3

How reproducible:

100% reproducible
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Do "yum update package-name" or "yum install package-name"
2.
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Actual results:
Yum aborts during transaction check (before actually downloading packages)

Expected results:
Packages downloaded and installed

Additional info:

Problem began immediately upon updating yum to 3.0.3 yesterday

Comment 1 Stephen O. Gombosi 2007-02-22 23:19:06 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229582 ***