﻿id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
198	Cannot run yum when logged onto non-writable volume or volume not supporting long filenames	Lewis Rosenthal	Silvan Scherrer	"Paths (and path rewriters) all set correctly.

%UNIXROOT% is set to J: (no trailing backslash)

Running just {{{yum}}} from the following volumes produces different output:

{{{
A: [FAT16]            fails - see message, below
C: [JFS]              succeeds
D: [HPFS]             succeeds
E: [DVD]              fails - see message, below
F: [NetWare]          succeeds
I: [NetDrive - ISOFS] succeeds
J: [JFS]              succeeds
N: [HPFS]             succeeds
O: [FAT16]            fails - see message, below
Q: [FAT32]            succeeds
}}}

Failure text (no yum.log):

{{{
[e:\]yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py"", line 62, in <module>
    import os
  File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py"", line 400, in <module>
    import UserDict
ImportError: No module named UserDict
}}}

Obviously, !UserDict.py and friends look just fine, or we would not have success anywhere.

Some package verisons:

yum-plugin-verify-1.1.31-3.oc00.noarch
yum-utils-1.1.31-3.oc00.noarch
yum-3.4.3-10.oc00.pentium4
yum-plugin-versionlock-1.1.31-3.oc00.noarch
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-7.oc00.pentium4
python-devel-2.7.6-14.oc00.pentium4
python-2.7.6-14.oc00.pentium4
python-libs-2.7.6-14.oc00.pentium4
libxml2-python-2.7.7-6.oc00.i386
python-pycurl-7.19.5.1-2.oc00.pentium4
rpm-python-4.13.0-9.oc00.pentium4

The mystery to me is how the !NetDrive-mapped read-only media is not a problem.

Marking as critical because we need to be able to run yum from the Blue Lion installation media (DVD, usually). This was not the case with the previous bootstrap, but my latest one seems to  have the latest files (the test above was from my production machine, which is regularly updated, and does not involve the bootstrap; the issue is easily reproduced on multiple systems with both fresh and maintained installations).

Possibly related to #71?"	defect	closed	Feedback Pending		python		medium	fixed		
