Software Update - Internal System Error

[Aloone]

I've upgraded from FC11 to FC12 32-bit (live CD to HD install).

Now when I try to perform software updates it gives me an Internal System Error.

I've clicked on more details and it gives me the following:

Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3122, in main
    backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 657, in dispatch_command
    self.update_packages(only_trusted, package_ids)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1948, in update_packages
    signed = self._is_package_repo_signed(pkg)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1437, in _is_package_repo_signed
    repo = self.yumbase.repos.getRepo(pkg.repoid)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 121, in getRepo
    'Error getting repository data for $s, repository not found' $ (repoid)

Everything else seems to work, including all of the programs I've installed from non-Fedora sources i.e. DOSEmu, Adobe Flash plug-in and Cannon LBP-660 printer driver.

Anyone know what the problem could be?

Sorry about posting this in the wrong place before, I hope I've got it right this time.

Thanks in advance.

[PhillyFloyd]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541645

It's a bug, read the thread to find out more/solution(s) etc ;-)

---------- Post added at 10:00 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 09:59 AM CST ----------

FYI, you can use yum from the command line in a terminal window, it only affects packageKit

in a terminal window as user root: yum update

[Aloone]

I'm still not having any luck.

I got the following error:

Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE-3.0.10-1.fc11.3.i686
Complete!
(1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'])
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

It now says I have mail; how do I check it?

I tried using cd to change to /var/spool/mail/root but it says there's no directory.

Should I file a bug report or is it something I've done wrong to cause this?

If it's a bug then is there anything I can do in the meantime o keep the system up to date?

[PhillyFloyd]

Well that's a different issue ... that just means the package kmod-VirtualBox-OSE is dependent on the kernel version listed ... yum is probably trying to update your kernel, although not sure why the kmod package isn't smart enough to resolve

you can update all but the kernel with the --exclude= flag; yum update --exclude=kernel*
then update the kmod-VirtualBox and kernel separately

[Aloone]

That didn't work because the kernel still wouldn't update when I excluded VirtualBox.

I ran the following command which updated everything except for the kernel and VirtualBox:
yum update --exclude=kernel* --skip-broken

I ran rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest and it gave the following error:

Unsatisfied dependencies for kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE-3.0.10-1.fc11.3.i686:
	kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE is needed by kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE-3.0.10-1.fc11.3.i686

I still can't get either the kernel or VirtualBox to update. My understanding is VirtualBox likes my current kernel version so won't install with the new kernal and the new kernel won't install because it doesn't want to break VirtualBox; am I right?

---------- Post added at 02:21 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 02:42 AM CST ----------

I've just noticed that VirtualBox wants FC11.

Perhaps the up grader didn't check VirtualBox dependencies when upgrading.

VirtualBox seems to work all right on FC12.

Is there a way to force upgrade the kernel?

Then I can upgrade VirtualBox whenever it's released for FC12.

I thought about installing VirtualBox but I'm worried I won't be able to reinstall it.

[Aloone]

No one knows?

I've checked that the repositories have been set up correctly.

Should I just leave it for now until maybe an update for VirtualBox appears?

[Aloone]

I think I've sorted it.

The problem was that both the fc11 and fc12 VirtualBox kernel modules were installed and the problem was resolved by removing kmod-VirtualBox-OSE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE-3.0.10-1.fc11.3.i686

I've run an update from the GUI and it seems to have worked. It just wants me to restart the machine which I'll do later.

Thanks for helping me PhillyFloyd.

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