Yum Error

[VanHalenMan]

Howdy, I haven't had all that much experience with linux. I used to mess around with it a lot but for a while i didnt have access to a linux computer. But now I do. I tried to install Yum. It is possible that I already had Yum installed (FC11) so i might have screwed somethin up when i tried to overwrite what was already there. anyway this is what happends when i do a simple yum info firefox

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "yummain.py", line 254, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "yummain.py", line 88, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "cli.py", line 203, in getOptionsConfig
    self.plugins.run('args', args=args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 170, in run
    raise ValueError('unknown slot name "%s"' % slotname)
ValueError: unknown slot name "args"

any ideas?
thanks

[shahdharmit]

Hello,

Just wanna make sure that did you enable rpmfusion repositories in your F11 machine?

[devils casper]

Execute this

su -
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*          <--- two under_scores before 'db*'
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb

In case it doesn't work, execute this

su -c yum repolist

Post output here.

[shahdharmit]

devils casper, why would he need to remove those files? I mean I've those __db* files in my machine and everything works fine.

PS-Not offending. Want to know about it.

[kurtdriver]

Fedora 11 came with yum pre-installed. But trying to install it anyway should just give you an error message similar to this one from my machine, "Setting up Install Process
Package yum-3.2.24-2.fc10.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
".
It can't hurt a thing. You might want to uninstall yum and start over with a fresh installation of it.
Do:
[root@Yourbox ~]$ yum erase yum
and then
[root@Yourbox ~]$rpm -ivh hxxp://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/yum-3.2.22-4.fc11.noarch.rpm
I hope that helps.

[devils casper]

devils casper, why would he need to remove those files? I mean I've those __db* files in my machine and everything works fine.

Its a rpm database and if it gets corrupted, yum doesn't work properly. db_verify command regenrate that database from scratch.

[VanHalenMan]

Execute this

su -
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*          <--- two under_scores before 'db*'
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb

In case it doesn't work, execute this

su -c yum repolist

Post output here.

no immediate errors come up but when i type the same thing (yum info firefox) i get this error

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "yummain.py", line 254, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "yummain.py", line 88, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "cli.py", line 203, in getOptionsConfig
    self.plugins.run('args', args=args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 170, in run
    raise ValueError('unknown slot name "%s"' % slotname)
ValueError: unknown slot name "args"

The bottom one gives me the same error.
I also tried uninstalling like kurtdriver said and it says command erase not found. So how would i uninstall it?

[kurtdriver]

rpm -e yum
This would do it, maybe yum can't erase itself.

[VanHalenMan]

error: Failed dependencies:
	yum >= 3.2.22 is needed by (installed) createrepo-0.9.7-6.fc11.noarch
	yum >= 2.9.5 is needed by (installed) system-config-language-1.3.2-5.fc11.noarch
	yum is needed by (installed) anaconda-yum-plugins-1:1.0-4.fc11.noarch
	yum >= 2.4 is needed by (installed) mock-0.9.16-1.fc11.noarch
	yum is needed by (installed) bodhi-client-0.5.19-1.fc11.noarch
	yum >= 3.2.22 is needed by (installed) yum-utils-1.1.21-2.fc11.noarch
	yum >= 3.2.19 is needed by (installed) PackageKit-yum-0.4.6-8.fc11.i586
	yum >= 3.0 is needed by (installed) PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.4.6-8.fc11.i586
	yum >= 3.2.19 is needed by (installed) preupgrade-1.0.1-2.fc11.noarch

hmmm