Created attachment 323331 [details] the thingy that the screen wanted me to send you Description of problem: Updating the system gave me an unhandled exception. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update system using pirut. 2. That's it. 3. No realy, that's it. Actual results: a screen that says: An unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug. Please save the crash dump and file a detailed bug report against pirut at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Expected results: an updated system. Additional info:
Updating package gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.0-1.fc8.i386 seems to be the problem. the rest works fine.
Created attachment 323341 [details] Pirut traceback from system update A similar traceback from Fedora 8 on an AMD x86_64 system. In my case de-selecting gecko-mediaplayer did not help.
Created attachment 323342 [details] Output of "yum check-update" This is the list of packages to be updated on my x86_64 system when the pirut traceback happens.
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In my case on my x86_84 system running "yum clear all" followed by "yum update" fixed the problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 465898 ***