update error on F9 --- round two - IGNORE

[Paul Newell]

Paul Newell wrote:
> Paul Newell wrote:
>> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:28:13 -0700
>>> pnewell at cs.cmu.edu (Paul Newell) wrote:
>>>
>>> ...snipp...
>>>  
>>>> My question to fedora-list is "what is the org.frredesktop.etc error
>>>> and how to I correct so it will work". If I need to go command line
>>>> and do it through yum, that's okay ... I just need a bit of guidance
>>>> on the process.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Do not login as root and attempt to run PackageKit/update.
>>> Either:
>>> - Login as root, but run 'yum update' from a terminal.
>>> - Login as a normal user and apply updates via PackageKit.
>>> See:
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKitFaq#system-install-packages_and_gpk-install-file_do_not_work_when_run_as_the_root_user.21 
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Paul
>>>>     
>>>
>>> kevin
>>>   
>> Thanks, will try this suggestion during the next week
>>
>> Paul
>>
> After checking this link and reading some of the other comments, I 
> elected to log in as root and do it via "yum update". Couple problems 
> that I only partly understand.
>
> First, I got "kernal: Uhhuh / Dazed and Confused" messages, which I 
> don't think are related to the "yum update" and will post another 
> thread on that (if they are related, then my bad assumption)
>
> Second, it did the rpm_check_debug / Transaction Test (succeeded) and 
> began all the installs and updates. Failed on one:
>
>      Updating  : gmime-sharp                  #####################
>    [179/790]
>      Updating  : gpm-devel                    #####################
>    [180/790]
>    error: boost-devel-1.34.1-15.fc9: Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key
>    ID 4f2a6fd2
>      Updating  : netpbm-devel                 #####################
>    [182/790]
>      Updating  : libXfont-devel               #####################
>    [183/790]
>
> I want to beleive that this is a local problem to the boost package 
> that probably needs to be tried again before reporting problem. That 
> being said, I am a newbie so I wanted to check. If I am right, will 
> the system pick boost up as in need of update and let me try again 
> next time I boot.
>
> Third, when it finished with updating selinux-policy-targeted, I got a 
> error that "Tomboy Notes" had quit. I also got an message about:
>
>    SELinux is preventing mono (unlabeled_t)
>    "use" to /dev/null (unconfined_t)
>
> That seems like a bug?
>
> The last one is the one that has me concerned as it is coming from yum 
> at the very very end:
>
>      Cleanup   : openssh                      #####################
>    [788/790]
>      Cleanup   : gtk2                         #####################
>    [789/790]
>    ERROR:dbus.connection:Unable to set arguments () according to
>    signature u's': <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: More items found in
>    D-Bus signature than in Python arguments
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>        yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>      File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 241, in user_main
>        errcode = hotshot(main, args)
>      File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 193, in main
>        # Run the transaction
>      File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 432, in doTransaction
>        errstring += '  %s\n' % to_unicode(descr)
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 790,
>    in runTransaction
>        if os.path.exists(fn):
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 175,
>    in run
>        func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
>      File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/refresh-packagekit.py", line 37, in
>    posttrans_hook
>        packagekit_iface.StateHasChanged('posttrans')
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68,
>    in __call__
>        return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140,
>    in __call__
>        **keywords)
>      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line
>    597, in call_blocking
>        'path %s' % LOCAL_PATH)
>    TypeError: More items found in D-Bus signature than in Python 
> arguments
>    You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root
>    [root at chowder ~]#
>
> This is certainly giving me the impression that something isn't right 
> in the yum code that is doing the install ... if it were the install 
> proper I would expect a cleaner message rather than a Python trace of 
> its burp, right?
>
> I have attached the mail it left for me.
>
> I've left the system as is because I am not certain whether there 
> might be advice to do something before I reboot ... and I certainly 
> expected yum to tell me I ought to reboot but I think the final error 
> killed yum properly finishing.
>
> Once again, thanks for any help,
> Paul
>
Bit the bullet, did the reboot, it wanted to update boost, did yum 
update, everything behaved.

I'm obviously being way too timid in this process and I apologize for 
this post as I clearly should have shown a bit more willingness to "see 
what happens if".

The kernal issue which I put on a different thread is still an issue, 
doing memcheck86 as I write this.

Thanks for all the help,
Paul