On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Yasha Karant wrote:

> After updating my IA-32 image SL 6 laptop to SL 6.4 using the update
> pathway from the automatically displayed anaconda GUI using the
> approximately 4Gbyte update/install DVD, rebooting and using the system,
> the red "badge" (Update Applet 2.28.3) with a bang appeared on the upper
> panel.  The claim is presented for 148 updates.  I attempted to use the
> automatically displayed GUI updater that is invoked from the red badge
> icon.  In addition to be exceptionally slow because of poor USA DSL
> bandwidth at my home, the following diagnostics appeared:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py", line 2798, in
> install_signature
>     self.yumbase.getKeyForPackage(pkg, askcb = lambda x, y, z: True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 4765,
> in getKeyForPackage
>     result, errmsg = self.sigCheckPkg(po)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 2189,
> in sigCheckPkg
>     sigresult = rpmUtils.miscutils.checkSig(ts, po.localPkg())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py", line
> 67, in checkSig
>     fdno = os.open(package, os.O_RDONLY)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/var/cache/yum/i386/6.4/adobe-linux-i386/packages/AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i486linux_enu.rpm'
>
>
> could not add package update for lcms2-2.3-2.el6(i686)epel:
> lcms2-2.3-2.el6.i686
>
> I cancelled the update and will try again later.
>
> 1.  Does anyone know what is causing the above (recall that the DVD 6.4
> upgrade was successful)?

Someone removed 
/var/cache/yum/i386/6.4/adobe-linux-i386/packages/AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i486linux_
enu.rpm

>
> 2.  As the on-line update is VERY slow for my situation, I attempted to
> let the process run overnight unattended.  Is there anyway to do this
> automated install so that it will simply skip those packages that "fail"
> (as the above) without requiring root password authentication
> intervention, similar to the -y switch on fsck.  I realize that such
> automation is not ideal, but it would be less total time to re-install
> from DVD in the event that the process resulted in a no-boot or highly
> unstable system.
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
> Yasha Karant
>

-Connie Sieh