Bug 595908

Summary: [abrt] crash in yum-3.2.27-4.fc13: fastestmirror.py:121:clean_hook:OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/i386/13/timedhosts.txt'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Wald <dwald34>
Component: yum-utilsAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: ffesti, james.antill, maxamillion, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description David Wald 2010-05-25 21:48:06 UTC 
abrt 1.1.0 detected a crash.

architecture: i686
cmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum clean all
component: yum
executable: /usr/bin/yum
kernel: 2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE
package: yum-3.2.27-4.fc13
reason: fastestmirror.py:121:clean_hook:OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/i386/13/timedhosts.txt'
release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)

backtrace
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fastestmirror.py:121:clean_hook:OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/i386/13/timedhosts.txt'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 254, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 109, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 356, in doCommands
    return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 538, in doCommand
    return base.cleanCli(extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 902, in cleanCli
    self.plugins.run('clean')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 177, in run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 121, in clean_hook
    os.unlink(hostfilepath)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/i386/13/timedhosts.txt'

Local variables in innermost frame:
conduit: <yum.plugins.PluginConduit instance at 0x87a80ac>

How to reproduce
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1. yum clean all
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3.
Comment 1 David Wald 2010-05-25 21:48:08 UTC 
Created attachment 416567 [details]
File: backtrace
Comment 2 Tim Lauridsen 2010-05-26 04:31:17 UTC 
fixed upstream, will be released soon

use 'yum clean all' as root to clean the fastestmirror timing file for now

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 537829 ***