[SOLVED] yum update fails: AttributeError: CHECKSUM_VALUE

[Nagahyde]

Somehow I screwed up yum on Linux 2.6.18-53.el5PAE. Most likely by downloading RPMs from the wrong spot; but perhaps because I killed yum whie it was updating. rpmforge?

How can I recover?

I have tried

yum clean all
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpmdb -vv --rebuilddb

and stiill get

[root]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
rhel-i386-server-vt-5     100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00     
rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00     
rhn-tools-rhel-i386-serve 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00     
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Skipping security plugin, no data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 102, in main
    result, resultmsgs = do()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 359, in doCommands
    return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 150, in doCommand
    return base.updatePkgs(extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 641, in updatePkgs
    obsoleting_pkg = self.getPackageObject(obsoleting)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1462, in getPackageObject
    pkgs = self.pkgSack.searchPkgTuple(pkgtup)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 68, in searchPkgTuple
    return self.searchNevra(name=n, arch=a, epoch=e, ver=v, rel=r)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 231, in searchNevra
    return self._computeAggregateListResult("searchNevra", name, epoch, ver, rel, arch)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 323, in _computeAggregateListResult
    sackResult = apply(method, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 544, in searchNevra
    returnList.append(self.pc(rep,self.db2class(x)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 429, in db2class
    y.checksum = {'pkgid': 'YES','type': db.checksum_type, 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 97, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, key
AttributeError: CHECKSUM_VALUE

I have yum version 3.0.1

[root]# rpm -qa|grep yum
yum-security-1.0.4-3.el5
yum-updatesd-3.0.1-5.el5
yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-5.el5_1.2
yum-3.0.1-5.el5
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5

I was told rpmforge does not elong here; but I ama newbie and have no clue.

[root]# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 684 Mar  8  2007 mirrors-rpmforge
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254 Apr 29 13:22 rhel-debuginfo.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 428 May 26 11:04 rpmforge.repo

[jeffmurphy]

rpm -qa | grep yum-metadata-parser
rpm -ev --nodeps yum-metadata-parser-VERSIONFROMABOVECMD

cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux...8.fc6.i386.rpm
rpm -iv ./yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6.i386.rpm
yum check-update

[Nagahyde]

That got yum working!! Thank-you so much!

Over 100 backlogged updates went through with no trouble. All that is left is these five:

[root@primes ~]# yum check-update
...
firefox.i386              3.0-0.beta5.6.el5      rhel-i386-server
libhugetlbfs.i386         1.2-5.el5              rhel-i386-server
lvm2.i386                 2.02.32-4.el5          rhel-i386-server
mysql-server.i386         5.0.45-7.el5           rhel-i386-server
python-devel.i386         2.4.3-21.el5           rhel-i386-server

Errors:

1) mysql-server.i386 0:5.0.45-7.el5
   file /usr/bin/mysqldumpslow from install of mysql-server-5.0.45-7.el5 conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.22-2.2.el5_1.1

2) python-devel.i386   2.4.3-21.el5
   Error: python-devel conflicts with python < 2.4.3-21.el5

3) firefox.i386  3.0-0.beta5.6.el5
   Error: Missing Dependency: libgtkembedmoz.so is needed by package devhelp
   Error: Missing Dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.0.12 is needed by package devhelp

4) libhugetlbfs.i386 1.2-5.el5
   Error: libhugetlbfs conflicts with libhugetlbfs-lib < 1.2

5) lvm2.i386 2.02.32-4.el5
   file /sbin/dmeventd from install of device-mapper-event-1.02.24-1.el5 conflicts with file from package device-mapper-1.02.20-1.el5

Are these easy to fix? (Are mine somehow newer than what it wants to update to?)

[jeffmurphy]

usually i just 'rpm -ev --nodeps' the offending packages (typically the ones listed on the right side of the warnings, eg, mysql-5.0.22-2.2.el5_1.1).

then i do a yum update and let it reinstall the correct packages.

the python one you may need to deal with manually because yum is written in python -- so if you remove python, yum will stop working.

download the python rpms (they may already be in your yum cache) and then rm the offending python package and manually (rpm -U) do the update.

[Nagahyde]

While trying to fix this someone else asked me to set enabled=0 in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo. Should it be 1 or 0?

> cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 0
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

[jeffmurphy]

if you feel rpmforge was part of the problem, then leave is disabled. i dont use rpmforge, so i cant advise either way.

[Nagahyde]

I do not know what caused the problem. Anyway, now all are working but yum--I get to it soon. Want to make sure I have (all of?) the rpm(s)...

Thanks again. I am glad your first post was a solution to my problem!