[ATrpms-users] FC7 yum update "list index out of range" for flac

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:34:44PM -0400, Roland Roberts wrote:
> When trying to a straight "yum update" on a newly installed FC7, I got
> the above error which I eventually tracked to being caused by attempting
> to update flac:
> 
> [root at aristarchus yum.repos.d]# yum update flac
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package flac.i386 0:1.1.4-4_12.fc7 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libFLAC.so.8 for package: xmms-flac
> 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
> 
> Any ideas on how to get around this?

This looks like a bug in yum. Try the yum clean xxx options to make
yum refetch the metadata and redo its indices. If that doesn't help
please report aginst yum on bugzilla.redhat.com. You can put my email
on the Cc: if you like. Thanks!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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