Description of problem:
pirut crashes reliably on my system during the "Retrieving Software Information"
phase.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pirut-1.2.8-1.fc6

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Launch pirut from the "Applications" menu
  
Actual results:
This error message:
Component: Software Manager
Summary: TB8a9160cb comps.py:143:parse_package_list:CompsException

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 453, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 449, in main
    pm.run()
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 358, in run
    self.doRefresh()
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 373, 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


Expected results:
Add/remove software