Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 477018
An internal system error has occured
Last modified: 2009-01-26 20:56:41 EST
Description of problem: when searching for picasa in PackageKit, a window pops up: An internal system error has occured: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'> Error Value: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace' File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2280, in <module> main() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2277, in main backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 611, in dispatcher self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 479, in dispatch_command self.get_details(pkgs) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1612, in get_details self._show_details_pkg(pkg) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1621, in _show_details_pkg desc = desc.replace('\n\n', ' ') Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gpk-application 0.3.12 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add google repos (http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/yum.html) 2. open Add/Remove Software 3. search for picasa Actual results: search results are correct Expected results: no pop up Additional info:
I can reproduce, investigating now.
Committed in master and stable, they'll be new packages on Monday: commit d477d595267ca0a70d119381205df83d3adeea61 Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> Date: Thu Dec 18 18:10:03 2008 +0000 yum: don't show an error when we try to get the details of a package that does not have a description field. Fixes RH#477018
PackageKit-0.3.13-1.fc10,gnome-packagekit-0.3.13-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/PackageKit-0.3.13-1.fc10,gnome-packagekit-0.3.13-1.fc10
PackageKit-0.3.13-1.fc10, gnome-packagekit-0.3.13-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.