yet another pirut problem

[emh1972]

Hi everyone, I'm hoping one of you can help me with this...

Distro:
F7

Problem:
Pirut and Pup fail to invoke with no error message after system update. Pirut asks for password then disappears. Pup sinply won't start. YUM works fine.

Tried solutions:
Yum update: no packages marked for update.
Yum clean all
Yum remove pirut
Yum install pirut

I'm new to linux and I have no clues to this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Marc

[nariknahom]

i have exactly the same problem. It shows there are some updates available. When I select 'apply update' it shows config error after some time. The error details just says 'none'.

Waiting for some help!

TIA,
kiran

[RJFUatHOME]

Sometimes local mirrors are having problems that fix themselves in a day, but usually if I have issues I simply (as root)

yum clean all
yum makecache
yum update or run the gui based updater

It usually eliminates any issues I have.

[emh1972]

I'll try those things. I just installed yumex (yum install yumex) and after a while setup succeeded. So all if good for now.

Thanks again.

[emh1972]

Originally Posted by emh1972

I'll try those things. I just installed yumex (yum install yumex) and after a while setup succeeded. So all if good for now.

Thanks again.

The funny thing about yumex is that when I start it it fails to update comps-f7.xml five or six times and then terminates.

I just got the following message, which might as well be in Chinese!

Component: pirut
Summary: TB11af5ff9 grabber.py:1219:_do_grab:OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//var/cache/yum/updates/comps-f7.xml'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 441, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 434, in main
pm = PackageManager(options.config, options.onlyrepo)
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 61, in __init__
GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 124, in __init__
self.reset()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 226, in reset
self.doGroupSetup()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 459, in doGroupSetup
return self._getGroups()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 505, in _getGroups
groupfile = repo.getGroups()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 884, in getGroups
file = self.retrieveMD('group')
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 855, in retrieveMD
cache=self.http_caching == 'all')
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 618, in _getFile
http_headers=headers,
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 411, in urlgrab
return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 397, in _mirror_try
return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs )
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 927, in urlgrab
return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 845, in _retry
r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 915, in retryfunc
fo._do_grab()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1219, in _do_grab
os.utime(self.filename, (modified_stamp, modified_stamp))
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//var/cache/yum/updates/comps-f7.xml'

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <urlgrabber.grabber.URLGrabberFileObject instance at 0x497f758>
amount: None
modified_stamp: 1193847097.0
new_fo: <closed file '//var/cache/yum/updates/comps-f7.xml', mode 'wb' at 0x489e0a8>
bs: 8192
modified_tuple: (2007, 10, 31, 16, 11, 37, 0, 1, 0, 0)
ValueError: unpack non-sequence
block:
size: 1190625

[RJFUatHOME]

Originally Posted by emh1972

I just got the following message, which might as well be in Chinese!

I've looked at yumex momentarily before then lost interest. Try the yum clean all, yum makecache again today to see if it wasn't a problem with your local mirror.

Yum rarely fails for me, but when it does those commands always fix it for me unless it's a problem with the repos themselves.

You could try using apt and synaptic for package management, at least until you get yum in working order. I use it as a backup manager/updater when the mirrors/repos are temporarily out of order. It links directly to fedoras download repo.

You'll want to install apt, synaptic and fedora-package-config-apt if you want to give it a try.