[CentOS] python-dbus

Mon Apr 13 22:43:43 UTC 2009
Bob Taylor <bob8221 at gmail.com>

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 18:47 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 18:29:55 Bob Taylor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 17:55 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > During startup there is a message about a missing python-dbus.  Querying
> > > rpm and yum tells me that nothing provides python-dbus and no such
> > > package exists.  What do I need?
> >
> > Hi Ann!
> >
> > ann:/etc# yum search dbus-python

[snip]

> > ============================= Matched: dbus-python
> > =============================
> > dbus-python.i386 : D-Bus Python Bindings
> > ann:/etc# rpm -q dbus-python
> > dbus-python-0.70-7.el5
> >
> > Name switch! Confused me also!
> 
> Now how the blue blazes are we supposed to guess that?  Oops -
> 
> Package dbus-python-0.70-7.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
> Nothing to do

Back to the drawing board, I guess. This business of getting a message
that something is not installed when it *is* should *not* happen. I
consider this a nasty bug as the error is *meaningless*. The only thing
that comes to mind at the moment is something is looking
in /usr/lib/python and not /usr/lib/python2.4.

-- 
Bob Taylor