Bug 426637 - rpm installing package exception "maximum recursion depth exceeded"
Summary: rpm installing package exception "maximum recursion depth exceeded"
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 375221
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pirut
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-23 15:09 UTC by jiu ke
Modified: 2007-12-24 13:30 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-12-23 15:13:35 UTC
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crash dump when installing opera rpm package (124.24 KB, application/octet-stream)
2007-12-23 15:09 UTC, jiu ke
no flags Details

Description jiu ke 2007-12-23 15:09:22 UTC
Description of problem:

can not install rpm package by double-click the rpm file (e.g.
opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm). An error message box poped up saying 
"Component: pirut
Summary: TB3242b26e repos.py:278:getAttribute:RuntimeError: maximum recursion
depth exceeded
................
...............
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 278, in getAttribute
    return getattr(self, key, None)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: atrpms
key: enabled
"

please see attached for detail.

 however, I can install the rpm using terminal by typing:
  "rpm -ivh opera-9.25-20071214.6-shared-qt.i386-en.rpm"


same error happened for other rpm package installtion



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

for every rpm packages tried

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Comment 1 jiu ke 2007-12-23 15:09:22 UTC
Created attachment 290304 [details]
crash dump when installing opera rpm package

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-12-23 15:13:35 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 375221 ***

Comment 3 jiu ke 2007-12-24 13:30:36 UTC
I can not start yum (add/remove program) after install yum update today.

please see 426695 for details
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426695


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