Whoa! Need help resolving Yum issues

[Todd Denniston]

N. James Bridge wrote, On 12/17/2008 01:55 PM:
> 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".
> 

perhaps a bit more than that... like a reboot.
please see Paul Frields email:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00012.html

granted the `yum update dbus` might be needed in Dan's case if other packages 
than dbus are preventing the yum update from finishing.

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Todd Denniston
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