Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/RedHat Folow Fedora 5 directions to.. 2. yum --enablerepo atrpms install madwifi 3. Then atempt to open software updater or add/remove programs Actual results: error opening add/remove programs or software update Expected results: install component for instaltion of madwifi Additional info:
Created attachment 128726 [details] folowing some steps to hopefully install madwifi
Component: Software Manager Summary: TB4426d5a1 ConfigParser.py:490:_read:ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: ///etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo [line 5]: 'against enabling atrpms for standard yum usage.\n' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 363, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 358, in main pm = PackageManager() File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 56, in __init__ GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 122, in __init__ self.doConfigSetup() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 104, in doConfigSetup self.getReposFromConfig() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 135, in getReposFromConfig parser.read(files) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 225, in read IncludingConfigParser.read(self,filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 126, in read ConfigParser.read(self,filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read self._read(fp, filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 490, in _read raise e ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: ///etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo [line 5]: 'against enabling atrpms for standard yum usage.\n' Local variables in innermost frame: sectname: atrpms cursect: {'__name__': 'atrpms', 'enabled': '0', 'name': 'Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms', 'baseurl': 'http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable'} e: File contains parsing errors: ///etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo [line 5]: 'against enabling atrpms for standard yum usage.\n' fpname: ///etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo vi: = mo: <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb7a372a0> optname: enabled fp: <open file '///etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo', mode 'r' at 0xb7a13f98> lineno: 7 line: self: <yum.parser.IncludedDirConfigParser instance at 0xb7a3038c> optval: 0
Your yum repo file is invalid (it looks like it might have an unexpected newline in a comment or something). Please contact the provider of that file.
Also, we've added handling to catch this error and give a nicer dialog rather than a traceback for the future (yum > 2.6.1 and pirut > 1.0.2)