Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

[N. James Bridge]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:40 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
> I get this error from Yum...
> 
> ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on
> :1.31:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place
> prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see
> message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface
> "org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member "Introspect" error name
> "(unset)" destination ":1.31")
> 
> I cannot seem to be able to get my yum updates working. It
> is showing all sorts of dependency errors and I removed:
> 
> + kadu
> + gyachi
> 
> and finally the only one left is:
> 
> fuse-emulator
> 
> for which I cannot remove.
> 
> What can I do to kick-start my yum updates so that
> I can later add back in the above removed packages?
> 
> Thanks!
> Dan
> 
> 
This was the subject of animated discussion recently: as I recall, an
update to dbus broke the automatic updates. I know the bug has been
fixed and I think that all that is necessary is to do "yum update dbus".

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N. James Bridge <james at xmas.demon.co.uk>