Description of problem: I upgraded from F6 to F7, unfortunately I'm unable to run pirut (Software Manager) or manually yum. the problem seems in python modules. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pirut - 1.3.7-1.fc7.noarch yum-metadata-parser - 1.1.0-2.fc7 yum - 3.2.0-1.fc7.noarch How reproducible: just run pirut or yum Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: see attachment Expected results: pirut, yum should run normally and able to update the packages. Additional info: There were some warning during upgrade and are listed here (for information only): Upgrading nautilus-sendto - 0.10-4.fc7.i386 I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/gconf/schemas/nst.schemas" Failed to open `/etc/gconf/schemas/nst.schemas': No such file or directory Upgrading gnome-games - 1:2.18.1.1-1.fc7.i386 I/O warning : failed to load external entity "glchess.schemas" Failed to open `glchess.schemas': No such file or directory Upgrading control-center - 1:2.18.0-18.fc7.i386 I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/gconf/schemas/control-center.schemas" Failed to open `/etc/gconf/schemas/control-center.schemas': No such file or directory
Created attachment 156831 [details] Both commands messages output
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. The "biosHdr" python module is available into this package: firmware-addon-dell. /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/biosHdr.py /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/biosHdr.pyc /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/biosHdr.pyo This is the yum output regarding "yum install firmware-addon-dell": ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: firmware-addon-dell i386 1.2.13-1.fc7 fedora 26 k Installing for dependencies: firmware-tools noarch 1.2.4-1.fc7 fedora 101 k libsmbios-bin i386 0.13.6-1.fc7 fedora 57 k You can try to install manually these packages by downloading from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/ However, the error that both yum and pirut noticed seems a bit strange to me (I don't have these packages installed and both work fine for me). While Waiting an answer from Jeremy Katz, you can try to do what I wrote above.
Doing an update of the plugin package (by running 'yum --noplugins update yum*') should help things out. I've posted a patch upstream to potentially just bail out and not die like this when plugins fail to load for the future
Thanks for replying to my post, I installed the packages manually from the link mentioned above and things went fine; however, before I downloaded them I tried to find the package firmware-addon-dell from Fedora 7 distribution CD (dvd) and I found that the package was not there, this seems to lead to the mean issue which is the package firmware-addon-dell was not included in the distribution CD (Here I'm talking about the DVD iso). Thanks and appreciate your support.
Yes, all of the packages in the Fedora universe wouldn't fit on one DVD (in fact, would barely fit on two currently!) so some things will still have to be updated from the net after doing the distro ugprade. Better handling for the plugin failure is going on upstream and help out; thanks for the report!