From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 Description of problem: redhat-config-packages starts loading the database and crashed towards the end of the starting process (where the status message shows "Reading system state" ) with : [root@shark tmp]# redhat-config-packages Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 163, in ? comps = im.readCompsViaMethod(hdlist, progress.update) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py", line 488, in readCompsViaMethod update_method = update_method) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 387, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 471, in readCompsFile self.setupStateDicts(packages) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 420, in setupStateDicts for prov in h[rpm.RPMTAG_PROVIDES]: TypeError: iteration over non-sequence [root@shark tmp]# echo $? 0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.[root@shark tmp]# redhat-config-packages Actual Results: crashes Expected Results: show Add/Remove screen Additional info: my rpm DB my be corrupt was working fine. hasen't worked since a update of lynx that locked up. ...and that might have happend after a kernel update that locked up as well.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74877 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.