418042 - updating fails

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, defect)

Description

[h van Breugel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nl; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071213 Fedora/2.0.0.10-3.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.10
Build Identifier: fedora 8

Component: pirut
Summary: TB7bcc1c48 config.py:707:_getsysver:TypeError: rpmdb open failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 611, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 603, in main
    pup = PackageUpdater(not options.autoapply, options.config)
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 80, in __init__
    GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 132, in __init__
    plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 116, in doConfigSetup
    errorlevel=errorlevel)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 162, in _getConfig
    self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 640, in readMainConfig
    yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 707, in _getsysver
    idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', distroverpkg)
TypeError: rpmdb open failed

Local variables in innermost frame:
installroot: /
ts: <rpmUtils.transaction.TransactionWrapper instance at 0x9298f4c>
distroverpkg: redhat-release

Reproducible: Didn't try

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Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Wrong bugzilla installation.

You need to file this at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/