On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:29:08 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote: > I getting this error when trying to run yum: > > [root@violet 14:18:07 root]# yum -c /etc/yum-fedora.conf list updates > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ? > import yummain > File "yummain.py", line 21, in ? > File "clientStuff.py", line 25, in ? > File "pkgaction.py", line 25, in ? > File "rpmUtils.py", line 9, in ? > File "urlgrabber.py", line 21, in ? > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 101, in ? > import ftplib > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/ftplib.py", line 68, in ? > all_errors = (Error, socket.error, IOError, EOFError) > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'error' I forgot to mention, I downloaded and installed yum-2.0.4-20031121 with the same result. I did an strace on yum, apparently python unsuccessfully searched 40 directories for a variation of SOCKS, before giving up and outputting the traceback. The strace is 171KB, but I can provide the last part if anyone wants. -Paul FWIW, my system is somewhere between RH9 and FC1.