Description of problem: Unexpected PackageKit failure. Error message: "Spawn of helper '/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py' failed". Main window remained stuck on "Getting Description...". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PackageKit-yum-0.3.16-1.fc10 PackageKit-0.3.16-1.fc10 python-2.5.2-1.fc10 How reproducible: Unknown Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start the System Updater 2. Update the system (in this case, not all packages have been selected at once and the System Updater was run twice, due to available disk-space issues) 3. Actual results: Apparently PackageKit failed while trying to perform a system update. Expected results: PackageKit should not have failed. Additional info: Logfile /var/log/PackageKit was found to contain the following: TI:22:48:30 FI:pk-spawn.c FN:pk_spawn_argv,510 trying to set timeout when already set I am not sure whether or not it is related to the above... Latest entry in yum.log is: Oct 16 02:00:22 Updated: phonon-backed-xine-4.3.1-6.fc10.1.i386
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PackageKit 0.3.x is no longer supported. Going to close this as WONTFIX. If this is still an issue with later PackageKit releases please feel free to REOPEN this report for the appropriate release and version.
Confirming this against Fedora 17, PackageKit v0.7.5. Please see the attached screenshot. $ NETWORK=TRUE /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py get-updates none bash: /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py: Permission denied $ ll /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 149087 Jun 27 10:54 /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py $ head /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py #!/usr/bin/python # Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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