Bug 248818

Summary: Attempting to open software updater
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: roger benham <rogerbenham>
Component: pirutAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 6CC: james.antill, p.van.egdom
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Description roger benham 2007-07-18 23:15:09 UTC
Description of problem:
Component: Software Updater
Summary: TB6b5e0e87 config.py:661:_getsysver:TypeError: rpmdb open failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 659, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 652, in main
    pup = PackageUpdater()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 90, in __init__
    GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 124, in 
__init__
    plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 132, in 
doConfigSetup
    self.conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 598, in 
readMainConfig
    yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, 
startupconf.distroverpkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 661, in 
_getsysver
    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed

Local variables in innermost frame:
installroot: /
ts: <rpmUtils.transaction.TransactionWrapper instance at 0x8c47b4c>
distroverpkg: redhat-release



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Comment 1 Peter van Egdom 2007-11-14 19:18:38 UTC
Thank you for the report. However this has been reported to the incorrect
component. Reassigning from "up2date" to "pirut". Feel free to report any
further bugs you find to our bug tracking system.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-11-16 01:05:43 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249401 ***