Bug 426637

Summary: rpm installing package exception "maximum recursion depth exceeded"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: jiu ke <jiuke2k>
Component: pirutAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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crash dump when installing opera rpm package none

Description jiu ke 2007-12-23 15:09:22 UTC
Description of problem:

can not install rpm package by double-click the rpm file (e.g.
opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm). An error message box poped up saying 
"Component: pirut
Summary: TB3242b26e repos.py:278:getAttribute:RuntimeError: maximum recursion
depth exceeded
................
...............
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 278, in getAttribute
    return getattr(self, key, None)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: atrpms
key: enabled
"

please see attached for detail.

 however, I can install the rpm using terminal by typing:
  "rpm -ivh opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm"


same error happened for other rpm package installtion



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How reproducible:

for every rpm packages tried

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Comment 1 jiu ke 2007-12-23 15:09:22 UTC
Created attachment 290304 [details]
crash dump when installing opera rpm package

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-12-23 15:13:35 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 375221 ***

Comment 3 jiu ke 2007-12-24 13:30:36 UTC
I can not start yum (add/remove program) after install yum update today.

please see 426695 for details
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426695