Bug 19235

Summary:	'Add/Remove Software' application error after installing FC10
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	Martin Krcmar <martin.krcmar>
Component:	backend-yum	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Martin Krcmar 2008-12-22 04:53:41 UTC

I have just installed FC10 and after running 'Add/Remove Software' application for the first time I got the following error and was asked to post the bug message here, so here it is.


Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>
Error Value: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2202, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2198, in main
    backend = PackageKitYumBackend('', lock=True)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 193, in __init__
    if not self.comps.connect():
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumComps.py, line 223, in connect
    self._make_database_tables()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumComps.py, line 240, in _make_database_tables
    self.refresh()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumComps.py, line 249, in refresh
    cats = self.yumbase.comps.categories
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 608, in <lambda>
    comps = property(fget=lambda self: self._getGroups(),
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py, line 549, in _getGroups
    if not repo.ready():
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 322, in ready
    return self.repoXML is not None
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 1277, in <lambda>
    repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py, line 1273, in _getRepoXML
    raise Errors.RepoError, msg

Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-01-05 10:02:17 UTC

Hi there,
This bug report is very old and based on a version not supported anymore. By upgrading to a newer version of PackageKit you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of PackageKit.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with the latest version.

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