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