Description of problem: Yumex and software updater throw fatal exception errors when loading metadata Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Yumex 1.2.2 How reproducible: Launch Yumex or Software updater Steps to Reproduce: 1.Launch Yumex or let software updater launch 2.log in as root or view updates 3. recieve failure notice Actual results: both programs fail to launch Expected results: to be able to update the OS Additional info: both worked fine until after upgrade to 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen kernel
Created attachment 146488 [details] errors from Software updater
Created attachment 146489 [details] Software updater failure #2
Created attachment 146490 [details] Yumex failure
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Created attachment 146537 [details] Yumex crash dump files
(In reply to comment #5) > Created an attachment (id=146537) [edit] > Yumex crash dump files > Sorry I'm posting for the first time, so I've put my comments in wrong place. This bug(?) appears on my box suddnely. One day it working well next day it keep crashing. Nothing changed on my system - no installation od updates were made before crash. [radovan@bender ~]$ uname -a Linux bender 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [radovan@bender ~]$ sudo yumex GUI Setup Completted Mirrordetection : best Yum Version : 3.0.3 (/usr/share/yum-cli) [Yum] Loading "installonlyn" plugin Error in routine: BackgroundRunner Error Type: yum.comps.CompsException Error Value: Traceback: ('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexUtils.py', 1548, 'run', 'self.rc = self.runfunc( *self.args )') File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexUtils.py , line 1548, in run self.rc = self.runfunc( *self.args ) ('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py', 315, 'load_repo_data', 'self.doGroupSetup()') File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py , line 315, in load_repo_data self.doGroupSetup() ('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py', 341, 'doGroupSetup', 'yum.YumBase.doGroupSetup( self )') File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py , line 341, in doGroupSetup yum.YumBase.doGroupSetup( self ) ('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py', 408, 'doGroupSetup', 'self.comps.add(groupfile)') File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py , line 408, in doGroupSetup self.comps.add(groupfile) ('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 339, 'add', 'group = Group(elem)') File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 339, in add group = Group(elem) ('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 57, '__init__', 'self.parse(elem)') File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 57, in __init__ self.parse(elem) ('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 133, 'parse', 'self.parse_package_list(child)') File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 133, in parse self.parse_package_list(child) ('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 143, 'parse_package_list', 'raise CompsException') File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 143, in parse_package_list raise CompsException Component: yumex Version: 1.2.2 Summary: TB03120a34 yumexmain.py:1045:_runBackground:CompsException Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 1108, in ? mainApp = YumexMainApplication() File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 541, in __init__ self.setup_yum() File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 992, in setup_yum if self._runBackground( self.yumexbase.load_repo_data, rload ): File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 1045, in _runBackground raise self.backgroundThread.exception CompsException Local variables in innermost frame: runfunc: <bound method yumexBase.load_repo_data of <yumex.yumexBase.yumexBase object at 0x903012c>> args: (False,) self: <__main__.YumexMainApplication instance at 0x902a2ec>
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