Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 13 April 2009 23:43:43 Bob Taylor wrote: > >> 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. >> > > I've no idea what is looking for it. I'm inclined to ignore it until it gives > me a problem I can identify. The only reason I was trying to fix it was for > tidyness. > > Hi Anne, hplip claims to need it: [roger at rwells-rh ~]$ sudo hp-check warning: python-dbus not installed. HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2) Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.1 and even though it is installed: [roger at rwells-rh ~]$ sudo yum install dbus-python Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Package dbus-python-0.70-7.el5.i386 already installed and latest version Nothing to do hplip won't run because it thinks it isn't recall our thread on this a while back. Sorry to beat a dead horse. roger > Thanks for trying to help. > > Anne > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells at saic.com