| Summary: | ERROR: "spawn of helper failed" | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | PackageKit | Reporter: | Andrei ILIE <andrei.ilie> |
| Component: | General | Assignee: | Richard Hughes <richard> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Attachments: | err | ||
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Created attachment 70226 [details] err When trying to use Apper or PackageKit we get the following error: "Spawn of helper '/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py' failed". Please see the attached screenshot for details. Bug reproduced using the following rig: ~ Fedora 17 ~ Apper v0.7.2 (via official Fedora repos) ~ PackageKit v0.7.5 (via official Fedora repos) $ pkcon get-updates Getting updates [=========================] Waiting in queue [=========================] Starting [=========================] Fatal error: Spawn of helper '/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py' failed $ NETWORK=TRUE /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py get-updates none bash: /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py: Permission denied $ ll /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 149087 Jun 27 10:54 /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py $ head /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py #!/usr/bin/python # Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of