From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: up2date explods on fetching rpm headers. the system is an upgrade from 9 to the beta. i installed up2date from rawhide version 3.9.26 and ran up2date. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-3.9.26-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install new up2date 2. run up2date -u 3. Actual Results: explodes on update of rpm headers Expected Results: retrive headers and update all packages Additional info: Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93... ######################################## Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93-updates... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93-updates... Fetching rpm headers... exploded!################### [{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLHUP}], 3, -1) = 1 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- waitpid(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 255], WNOHANG) = 4383 write(6, "", 0) = 0 write(6, "\21\0\0\0\37\21\0\0\0\377\0\0", 12) = 12 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) read(3, "", 2048) = 0 ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 1 read(5, "\21\0\0\0\37\21\0\0\0\377\0\0", 12) = 12 open("/usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_AU.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(4, "+\0\1\0", 4) = 4 read(4, "\1\0011\0\0\0\0\0\3\0@\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\240\v"..., 32) = 32 write(4, "\1\0\n\0\4\0 \3H\0\0\0\234\377\234\377\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 92) = 92 exit_group(0)
i did a rm -rf /var/cache/up2date/* and after that up2date worked. looking back the first time i ran up2date it had for instance XFree86-4.3.0-30 after the first crash it had XFree86-4.3.0-32 so perhaps the update of packages messed it up.