more update non-optimals

[Joel Rees]

On Sep 15, 2008, at 2:34 AM, Joel Rees wrote:

> My AMD box in the other room updated just fine.
>
> yum clean
> yum check-update
> yum update
> yum update
> [a little running back and forth between an X11 unprivileged  
> session looking at the keys and a wheel user console session  
> importing and fingerprinting]
> shutdown -r now
> [seems to be running as well as it was, haven't figured out the new  
> input method for Japanese yet, PS-2 mouse is still erratic]

Well, now I have to take that back. Booted up the AMD box just to  
check, ran some things like

yum info yum
yum check-update

just to see, and it seemed to return too quickly and quietly.

yum search haegis

yielded no response at all, and then

yum search aegis

sent it into a very tight endless loop of some sort, would not even  
toggle the capslock indicator on the keyboard.

However, after killing the power and booting back up (did I make sure  
it did the fsck? erk.) I did a yum clean and tried it out again, and  
it seems to be behaving itself.

Guess I have to go back and read the threads on broken yum.


> My iBook G4 went through the first update, and right at the end of  
> the last cleanup transaction (PackageKit), gave me a traceback.  
> Something about (copied by hand, to practice my touch-typing ;)
>
> -----------------------------
> dbus.connection:Unable to set arguments () according to signature  
> u's': <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: More items  found in D-Bus  
> signature than in Python arguments
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>     yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 241 in user_main
>     errcode = main(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 193, in main
>     base.doTransaction()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 432 in doTransaction
>     self.runTransaction(cb=cb)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line  
> 790, in runTransaction
>     self.plugins.run('posttrans')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 175,  
> in run
>     func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
>   File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/refresh-packagekit.py", line 37, in  
> posttrans_hook
>     packagekit_iface.StateHasChanged('posttrans')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68,  
> in __call__
>     return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line  
> 140, in __call__
>     **keywords)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line  
> 597, in call_blocking
>     message.append(signature=signature, *args)
> TypeError: More items found in D-Bus signature than in Python  
> arguments
> -----------------------------
>
> I think I got that right.
>
> I checked the new keys and they are in place in /etc/pki/rpm-gpg .
>
> Anyone else seen this? Is it worth a bug report?
>
> What's the usual thing to do next? keep yumming?
>
> Is there a yum command to check yum's internal consistency?
>
> Joel Rees, Monday morning, 3 am, planning on being off-list and off- 
> line for a few hours