more update non-optimals
Joel Rees
joel.rees at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 23:14:24 UTC 2008
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
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