Description of problem: pirut produces an exception when starting. yum quits with error "NameError: global name 'ParsingError' is not defined" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: command with yum: yum install kmod-fglrx OR try to run pirut. Actual results: (pirut gives same message as yum): [root@localhost ~]# yum install kmod-fglrx Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 85, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 163, in getOptionsConfig disabled_plugins=opts.disableplugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 160, in _getConfig startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 306, in doPluginSetup plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 145, in __init__ self._importplugins(types) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 186, in _importplugins self._loadplugin(modulefile, types) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 195, in _loadplugin conf = self._getpluginconf(modname) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 277, in _getpluginconf except ParsingError, e: NameError: global name 'ParsingError' is not defined Expected results: New nvidia drivers should be installed Additional info:
This doesn't seem to be specific to the package I'm trying to install - pirut crashes on startup (after root password). The error is also produced with the command: [root@localhost ~]# yum list available
what version of yum is this?
It's 3.2.8 This is a fresh (24 hours ago) download of Fedora 8 64-bit, and it has performed an online system update
Well, we've fixed the traceback in later versions of yum in Fedora 9. Do you have any plugins installed? B/c one of them appears to have a broken config file.
Close this bug :)
Well, since finding this bug. I've done another fresh install of Fedora 8, but am avoiding the online update thingy. I can't remember now if there were any plug-ins at the time. I currently need it for work, and cannot invest much more time experimenting, but when this project is over, I'll try an update and see what happens - won't matter then if I trash it. I'll do a bit of reading around before I try Fedora 9 ... Thanks for the feedback!