[Yum] Yum 2.0.7 traceback on empty header file

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On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 11:53 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just ran "yum update" using a custom yum 2.0.7 packages, which got updated
> to the Fedora Core 2 one, and all went fine. Right after, I ran "yum clean
> all" as often since I'm short on disk space (my laptop), and to my surprise,
> there was a damaged header (zero byte file) which made yum unhappy. Simply
> removing it fixed the problem.
> 
> Worth ignoring? Trying to fetch the damaged header file again and replace
> it? Other ideas?
> 
> Matthias
> 
> --
> 
> [root@python2 root]# yum clean all
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Cleaning packages and old headers
> Damaged Header /var/cache/yum/base/headers/epic-4-1.0.1-17.i386.hdr
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 296, in main
>     HeaderInfo, rpmDBInfo, obsoleted)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 1156, in take_action
>     clean_up_old_headers(rpmDBInfo, HeaderInfo)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 772, in clean_up_old_headers
>     (e, n, v, r, a) = getENVRA(hdr)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 67, in getENVRA
>     if header[rpm.RPMTAG_EPOCH] == None:
> TypeError: unsubscriptable object
> [root@python2 root]# 
> 

This one has been seen and i should fix it - knowing that it's a 0 byte
file that causes it is very helpful. I think that is why it's slipping
past the other try-except tests.

thanks,
-sv





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