F11-Alpha: no yum update; gtk-update-icon-cache

[James Antill]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 12:06 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
> Just did a clean install of alpha 11. On first yum update ( over night ) 
> machine locks ups.  Restart. run yum-complete-transaction. It seems yum 
> had installed the 1100+ updated packages, but got stuck erasing.
> 
> Every 5 -10 packages, yum fails with a gtk-update-icon-cache: No theme 
> index file
> ............
> ValueError: too many values to unpack

 This is FED-BZ#484729, it's really an rpm API bug ... although yum
could work around it, AIUI Panu is going to fix it.

> So I'm waiting for each fail, running rpm -q on the failing package, and 
> then rpm -e --noscripts on the older version of the package.
> 
> And now, after doing that on bluez-gnome, yum-complete-transaction dies, 
> with:
> 
> ImportError: No module named iniparse
> 
> Any way to fix any this? Or just give it up?

 It should be fixable, depends on how much you want to try.

-- 
James Antill - james at fedoraproject.org
"I'd just like to see a realistic approach to updates via
 packages." -- Les Mikesell