yumex upchucks, messy.

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

Persuant to my font problems I thought I'd run yumex and see if I had any 
oddballs installed, but:

Component: yumex
Version: 1.2.2
Summary: TB03120a34 yumexmain.py:1045:_runBackground:CompsException

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 1108, in ?
    mainApp = YumexMainApplication()
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 541, in __init__
    self.setup_yum()
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 992, in setup_yum
    if self._runBackground( self.yumexbase.load_repo_data, rload ):
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 1045, in _runBackground
    raise self.backgroundThread.exception
CompsException

Local variables in innermost frame:
runfunc: <bound method yumexBase.load_repo_data of 
<yumex.yumexBase.yumexBase object at 0x83e5a8c>>
args: (False,)
self: <__main__.YumexMainApplication instance at 0x83e51ac>

This is the second time, the first time it didn't save the crash when I 
asked it to.  After that run I'd deleted the db__* files 
from /var/lib/rpm as that seems to be the std cure for what ails 
rpm/yum/yumex.

The onscreen traceback from the first time, which I killed with a ctrl-c 
after 10 minutes or so:
Error in routine: BackgroundRunner
Error Type: yum.comps.CompsException
Error Value:
Traceback:

('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexUtils.py', 
1548, 'run', 'self.rc = self.runfunc( *self.args )')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexUtils.py , line 1548, 
in run
    self.rc = self.runfunc( *self.args )
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py', 
315, 'load_repo_data', 'self.doGroupSetup()')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py , line 315, 
in load_repo_data
    self.doGroupSetup()
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py', 
341, 'doGroupSetup', 'yum.YumBase.doGroupSetup( self )')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yumex/yumexBase.py , line 341, 
in doGroupSetup
    yum.YumBase.doGroupSetup( self )
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py', 
408, 'doGroupSetup', 'self.comps.add(groupfile)')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py , line 408, in 
doGroupSetup
    self.comps.add(groupfile)
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 339, 'add', 'group = 
Group(elem)')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 339, in add
    group = Group(elem)
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 
57, '__init__', 'self.parse(elem)')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 57, in 
__init__
    self.parse(elem)
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 
133, 'parse', 'self.parse_package_list(child)')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 133, in 
parse
    self.parse_package_list(child)
('/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py', 
143, 'parse_package_list', 'raise CompsException')
  File : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/comps.py , line 143, in 
parse_package_list
    raise CompsException
Component: yumex
Version: 1.2.2
Summary: TB03120a34 yumexmain.py:1045:_runBackground:CompsException

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 1108, in ?
    mainApp = YumexMainApplication()
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 541, in __init__
    self.setup_yum()
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 992, in setup_yum
    if self._runBackground( self.yumexbase.load_repo_data, rload ):
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 1045, in _runBackground
    raise self.backgroundThread.exception
CompsException

Local variables in innermost frame:
runfunc: <bound method yumexBase.load_repo_data of 
<yumex.yumexBase.yumexBase object at 0x83e5a8c>>
args: (False,)
self: <__main__.YumexMainApplication instance at 0x83e51ac>

Now I'm doing an rpm --rebuilddb, but I don't expect that to fix this.

Is there a fix I can apply here?  Please?

Frankly, FC6, despite my intentions of keeping it cleaner than my old FC2 
install, is proving itself to be many times more fragile than FC2 ever 
was.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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