Created attachment 795014 [details] verbose output from yum Description of problem: yum is exiting immediately when it says "Running Transaction", without running the transaction Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Installed: rpm-4.10.3.1-2.fc18.x86_64 at 2013-09-04 02:31 Built : Fedora Project at 2013-08-26 08:54 Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> at 2013-08-26 Installed: yum-3.4.3-54.fc18.noarch at 2013-04-15 00:05 Built : Fedora Project at 2013-04-04 16:34 Committed: Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas> at 2013-04-04 Installed: yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.31-10.fc18.noarch at 2013-04-14 23:44 Built : Fedora Project at 2013-02-18 15:06 Committed: Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas> at 2013-02-18 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: `sudo yum update -y` Actual results: No transaction is performed Expected results: Packages are installed/updated Additional info: see attachment for verbose output from yum
Looks like this is the empty %pretrans lua scriptlet thing in Firefox. Strangely, when yum crashes for this something eats the signal so zsh doesn't tell me about it, otherwise I'd have noticed it was this a lot earlier. :-( *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1005253 ***