On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 16:30 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > Dan Thurman wrote: > > > > Now... I am reporting this to whomever that cares and I will not file a > > bug report at this time. Anyone who wants to do this can do this on my > > behalf if they so wish. As for me, I am going to get a beer and call it > > a day. > > > Without meaningful information, this is less than useless. Sorry this > happened to you but no one can really help without a real bug report (as > opposed to a rant). > > Thomas > Yes, of course it is a rant. When you get as many crashes and lost time as I do, I think you would probably rant as well. I ranted 7 times before and had nothing to show as a bug because it was HIDDEN behind the piruit (Software Add/Remove) and no log files were given. The 8th time it happened to me, I was in a yum terminal session and FINALLY got proof. So here it is: Downloading Packages: (1/43): snort-2.4.4-3.fc5 100% |=========================| 941 kB 00:24 (2/43): koffice-kivio-1.5 100% |=========================| 1.3 MB 00:35 (3/43): graveman-0.3.12.4 100% |=========================| 702 kB 00:17 (4/43): koffice-kpresente 100% |=========================| 2.9 MB 01:16 (5/43): gwget-0.97-3.fc5. 100% |=========================| 216 kB 00:05 (6/43): jabberd-2.0-0.s11 100% |=========================| 561 kB 00:14 (7/43): qalculate-kde-0.9 100% |=========================| 1.1 MB 00:28 (8/43): dia-0.94-21.i386. 100% |=========================| 2.9 MB 01:14 (9/43): lyx-1.4.0-5.fc5.i 100% |=========================| 4.2 MB 01:50 (10/43): gparted-0.2.3-1. 100% |=========================| 424 kB 00:10 (11/43): azureus-2.4.0.3- 100% |=========================| 9.8 MB 04:13 (12/43): python-imaging-1 100% |=========================| 406 kB 00:10 (13/43): koffice-kexi-1.5 100% |=========================| 3.6 MB 01:37 (14/43): koffice-kplato-1 100% |=========================| 909 kB 00:22 (15/43): ircd-hybrid-7.2. 100% |=========================| 612 kB 00:15 (16/43): rssowl-1.2-13.fc 100% |=========================| 3.0 MB 01:18 (17/43): vnstat-1.4-7.fc5 100% |=========================| 38 kB 00:01 (18/43): qalculate-gtk-0. 100% |=========================| 1.3 MB 00:37 (19/43): koffice-suite-1. 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB 00:00 (20/43): mediawiki-math-1 100% |=========================| 131 kB 00:05 (21/43): brightside-1.4.0 100% |=========================| 118 kB 00:02 (22/43): libqalculate-0.9 100% |=========================| 875 kB 00:24 (23/43): wine-0.9.11-1.fc 100% |=========================| 9.7 MB 04:11 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 175, in main base.doTransaction() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 660, in doTransaction problems = self.downloadPkgs(downloadpkgs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 663, in downloadPkgs cache=repo.http_caching != 'none', File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 626, in get http_headers=headers, File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 411, in urlgrab return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 397, in _mirror_try return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs ) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 784, in urlgrab return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 702, in _retry r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {}) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 772, in retryfunc fo._do_grab() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1102, in _do_grab os.utime(self.filename, (modified_stamp, modified_stamp)) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//var/cache/yum/extras/packages/wine-0.9.11-1.fc5.i386.rpm' This is a crash. Cannot prove that all my downloaded files were wiped out though. Dan