Description of problem: My syslog is full of error messages of type: yum-updatesd-helper: error getting update info: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'samearch' Per the following reference, http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176323, the error appears to be in /usr/lib/yum-plugins/priorities.py (part of yum-priorities package) where the line: if opts.samearch: should be replaced by something like: if opts and opts.samearch:
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