Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 133582
yum crashes when updating certain packages
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:50:22 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Epiphany/1.3.8 Description of problem: When I run 'sudo yum update', yum will show me a list of all of the available updates to my existing packages and ask me 'Is this ok?' to which I reply "yes". However, with certain packages, yum will crash after I reply 'yes' but before it even makes it to the test transaction. The following is an excerpt from a conversation I had with skvidal about this bug: 13:44 <clee> I'm getting an OSError closing a file descriptor but only when I try to 'yum update' certain packages 13:44 <clee> was wondering if you'd seen that 13:45 <skvidal> it's a gpgcheck issue 13:45 <skvidal> I'm closing a file descriptor I already closed 13:45 <clee> aha. Will attach yum's output to this bugreport. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum_2.1.3-1_noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run 'sudo yum update' 2. Answer 'y' to "Is this ok?" 3. Watch yum crash and burn Actual Results: yum crashed and gave me a traceback. Expected Results: yum should have upgraded the packages without crashing. Additional info:
Created attachment 104294 [details] Output of yum crashing on update This is what I get from yum with a broken package. (This is an example trimmed to show the problem - with any single broken package in a larger update, the same results occur.)
Could you check out yum cvs and tell me if this is fixed. I think it's been fixed for a little while now.
I should note that the crash was apparently caused by GPG checking the packages - if the package was unsigned, yum would crash. However, setting gpgcheck=0 in my /etc/yum.conf made this particular issue go away. I have updated to yum CVS and will test against it with the next rawhide update.