YUM CRASHES WILL BLOW AWAY CACHE DOWNLOADS. GUARANTEED!

[Thomas Cameron]

Dan Thurman wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 16:30 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>   
>> Dan Thurman wrote:
>>     
>>> Now... I am reporting this to whomever that cares and I will not file a
>>> bug report at this time.  Anyone who wants to do this can do this on my
>>> behalf if they so wish.  As for me, I am going to get a beer and call it
>>> a day.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Without meaningful information, this is less than useless.  Sorry this 
>> happened to you but no one can really help without a real bug report (as 
>> opposed to a rant).
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, of course it is a rant.  When you get as many crashes and lost
> time as I do, I think you would probably rant as well.  I ranted
> 7 times before and had nothing to show as a bug because it was
> HIDDEN behind the piruit (Software Add/Remove) and no log files
> were given.  The 8th time it happened to me, I was in a yum
> terminal session and FINALLY got proof.  So here it is:
>
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/43): snort-2.4.4-3.fc5 100% |=========================| 941 kB
> 00:24
> (2/43): koffice-kivio-1.5 100% |=========================| 1.3 MB
> 00:35
> (3/43): graveman-0.3.12.4 100% |=========================| 702 kB
> 00:17
> (4/43): koffice-kpresente 100% |=========================| 2.9 MB
> 01:16
> (5/43): gwget-0.97-3.fc5. 100% |=========================| 216 kB
> 00:05
> (6/43): jabberd-2.0-0.s11 100% |=========================| 561 kB
> 00:14
> (7/43): qalculate-kde-0.9 100% |=========================| 1.1 MB
> 00:28
> (8/43): dia-0.94-21.i386. 100% |=========================| 2.9 MB
> 01:14
> (9/43): lyx-1.4.0-5.fc5.i 100% |=========================| 4.2 MB
> 01:50
> (10/43): gparted-0.2.3-1. 100% |=========================| 424 kB
> 00:10
> (11/43): azureus-2.4.0.3- 100% |=========================| 9.8 MB
> 04:13
> (12/43): python-imaging-1 100% |=========================| 406 kB
> 00:10
> (13/43): koffice-kexi-1.5 100% |=========================| 3.6 MB
> 01:37
> (14/43): koffice-kplato-1 100% |=========================| 909 kB
> 00:22
> (15/43): ircd-hybrid-7.2. 100% |=========================| 612 kB
> 00:15
> (16/43): rssowl-1.2-13.fc 100% |=========================| 3.0 MB
> 01:18
> (17/43): vnstat-1.4-7.fc5 100% |=========================|  38 kB
> 00:01
> (18/43): qalculate-gtk-0. 100% |=========================| 1.3 MB
> 00:37
> (19/43): koffice-suite-1. 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB
> 00:00
> (20/43): mediawiki-math-1 100% |=========================| 131 kB
> 00:05
> (21/43): brightside-1.4.0 100% |=========================| 118 kB
> 00:02
> (22/43): libqalculate-0.9 100% |=========================| 875 kB
> 00:24
> (23/43): wine-0.9.11-1.fc 100% |=========================| 9.7 MB
> 04:11
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 175, in main
>     base.doTransaction()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 660, in doTransaction
>     problems = self.downloadPkgs(downloadpkgs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 663, in
> downloadPkgs
>     cache=repo.http_caching != 'none',
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 626, in get
>     http_headers=headers,
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line
> 411, in urlgrab
>     return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line
> 397, in _mirror_try
>     return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs )
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 784, in urlgrab
>     return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 702, in _retry
>     r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 772, in retryfunc
>     fo._do_grab()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 1102, in _do_grab
>     os.utime(self.filename, (modified_stamp, modified_stamp))
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '//var/cache/yum/extras/packages/wine-0.9.11-1.fc5.i386.rpm'
>
> This is a crash.  Cannot prove that all my downloaded files were wiped
> out though.
>   


Dan -

I have no doubt that you are seeing the behavior you describe.  You 
should *really* post it as a bug.  Putting it here on the list is a 
great start, but unless the maintainers can see it and collaborate on it 
via BZ, it does not do as much good.

Thanks!
TC