[SOLVED] I've broken my YUM

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Hi all,

I've done something to yum and it's not playing nice.

So far, I've tried:

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

And...

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

Here's the error I get when running a yum update (multiple packages removed):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 145, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 649, in buildTransaction
    (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 704, in resolveDeps
    for po, dep in self._checkFileRequires():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 901, in _checkFileRequires
    for pkg in self.rpmdb.returnPackages():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 297, in returnPackages
    self._makePackageObject(hdr, idx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 430, in _makePackageObject
    po = RPMInstalledPackage(hdr, index, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 37, in __init__
    YumInstalledPackage.__init__(self, rpmhdr)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1205, in __init__
    YumHeaderPackage.__init__(self, fakerepo, hdr)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 981, in __init__
    self.summary = misc.share_data(self.hdr['summary'].replace('\n', ''))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'

Thanks,
S

[rituraj.goswami]

reboot your machine. ths command sometimes behaves erratically but works fine after a reboot. looks like redhat needs to fix it.

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I fixed this with some help over at Fedorfourums.org.

I had to RPM -e --nodeps yum*rpm

Then reinstall all the yum dependancies (about10) and then RPM yum back in.


Long way round but it work. I suspect Python was the root cause.

S