Bizarre yum update problem

[Karl Larsen]

Arch Willingham wrote:
> As of teh most recent updates, any attempt at runing YUM update give a ton of errors. I have tried running update via yumrex, pup, etc but all bomb out. The errors are shown below. 
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Arch
>
> root at localhost ~]# /sbin/service yum-updatesd stop
> Stopping yum-updatesd:                                     [  OK  ]
> [root at localhost ~]# yum clean all
> Cleaning up Everything
> [root at localhost ~]# yum update -y
> Setting up Update Process
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
> primary.sqlite.bz2         46% |===========              | 1.8 MB    00:17 ETA pprimary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 3.8 MB    00:32     
> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 142 kB    00:00     
> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00     
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 1.2 MB    00:03     
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kdebindings.i386 0:3.5.7-1.fc7.1 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(DCOP) for package: kdesdk
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 135, in main
>     (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 540, in buildTransaction
>     (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 885, in resolveDeps
>     (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep, prcoformat_need)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 334, in _processReq
>     requirementTuple, errormsgs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 469, in _requiringFromInstalled
>     return self._requiringFromTransaction(reqpkg, requirement, errorlist)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 574, in _requiringFromTransaction
>     reqpkg = self.tsInfo.matchNaevr(name=name, ver=version, rel=release)[0]
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
>   
    For what it is worth I have had zero update problems. Some times 
what you get as an update can be a problem :-)

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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