Description of problem: Software Updater crashes on usage Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): unknown How reproducible: unknown - see attached Steps to Reproduce: Actual results: crash with traceback Expected results: Additional info: See atttached file probably more helpful than any information ( which is little ) that i have provided. The component listed in the traceback is listed as software updated, this doesnt appear listed thus rpmdb was the next best thing.
Created attachment 139732 [details] traceback report
This problem is with yum, so the component should be changed.
what system is this on? could you run: rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release for me? thanks
hello this appears to fix it, it has come back once or twice. rm /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --repairddb output of requested is: fedora-release-6-4 the above happened on a fresh install without modification ( new repos etc etc just "as is shipped"
Segafualts and loss of data are likely due to removing an rpmdb environment without correcting other problems in the rpmdb. FYI: Most rpmdb "hangs" are now definitely fixed by purging stale read locks when opening a database environment in rpm-4.4.8-0.4. There's more todo, but I'm quite sure that a large class of problems with symptoms of "hang" are now corrected. Detecting damaged by verifying when needed is well automated in rpm-4.4.8-0.4. Automatically correcting all possible damage is going to take more work, but a large class of problems is likely already fixed in rpm-4.4.8-0.8 as well. UPSTREAM
the similar problem. bug report: Component: Software Updater Summary: TB8a9160cb comps.py:143:parse_package_list:CompsException Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 659, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 655, in main pup.run() File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 494, in run self.doRefresh() File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 269, in doRefresh self.reposSetup(pbar) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 153, in reposSetup self.doGroupSetup() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 408, in doGroupSetup self.comps.add(groupfile) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 339, in add group = Group(elem) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 57, in __init__ self.parse(elem) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 133, in parse self.parse_package_list(child) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py", line 143, in parse_package_list raise CompsException CompsException Local variables in innermost frame: genre: optinoal self: Graphics package: digikam packagelist_elem: <Element 'packagelist' at 0xa18fcb0> child: <Element 'packagereq' at 0xa18fc20> I do not know what to do... makov
This last report appears identical to bug #224292. Ya'll should check it out. The instructions regarding 'yum clean all' and then 'yum -y update' appear to have worked for me (with my dump identical to your last one).
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Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...
Apart from comment 6, the random crashes etc are almost certainly results of kernel 2.6.18-19 mmap() bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213963 ***