Bug 86030 - RPM GUI does not work
Summary: RPM GUI does not work
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 74877
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-config-packages
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-12 17:45 UTC by Maurice Meneguzzi
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:52:10 UTC
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Description Maurice Meneguzzi 2003-03-12 17:45:38 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
rpm works in command line mode but not in GUI mode.
When I click on RedHat --> SystemSettings --> Packages (logged in as root), the
window opens witn the message "Cheking for installed packages" and then closes.
Here are the messages in the system log:

Mar 12 12:02:50 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778)
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
Mar 12 12:02:50 localhost kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Mar 12 12:05:51 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778)
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
Mar 12 12:05:51 localhost kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Mar 12 12:09:52 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778)
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
Mar 12 12:09:52 localhost kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.1-1.06    kernel-2.4.18-14

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on RedHat --> SystemSettings --> Packages
2.
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-03-13 20:12:39 UTC
If you run 'redhat-config-packages' from a terminal, what sort of output do you
get? 

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-03-13 21:47:11 UTC
From: 	meneguzzi <meneguzzi.net>
To: 	katzj
Subject: 	Bug 86030
Date: 	13 Mar 2003 16:44:40 -0500	
Hello,

When I run "redhat-config-packages" the GUI window opens and closes, and
here is the message on the terminal:


# 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



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74877 ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:52:10 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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