On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Danny Smith wrote: > I had something similar on some systems I maintain (older yum version), > and it turned out to be an invalid setting of the LC_ALL environment > variable. Worth checking if you have LC_ALL and/or LC_TIME environment > variables set to valid values? (unsetting them should be a good test of > this). Hummm, I just looked and got the following results: (pixie pts0) # echo $LC_ALL ; echo $LC_TIME (pixie pts0) # What are they supposed to be set to for a system that wants to be in US english?? Following are the contents of /etc/sysconfig/i18n: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" LC_COLLATE=C (pixie pts0) # As an update to what I originally posted I get this traceback on either machine any time I actually rm or install a package. If I do a list or abort the install or rm it just ends normally. > > In my case it was a suggested setting of "default" from the Sybase > install docs which caused problems. > > HTH > > Danny > > Jack Neely wrote: > > >I'm seeing similar problems on an FC3-ish box running yum-cvs. Haven't > >really looked at it...was tracking down other yummy ideas. > > > >Jack > > > >On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:10:01AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I am trying to get yum-2.3.2-1 working on el4. I thought I had it and infact > >>it does work fine on the machine I built it on. I have another el4 machine > >>that when I install yum and try to run it I get the following traceback: > >> > >>Transaction Summary > >>============================================================================= > >>Install 1 Package(s) > >>Update 0 Package(s) > >>Remove 0 Package(s) > >>Total download size: 9.5 M > >>Is this ok [y/N]: y > >>Downloading Packages: > >>Running Transaction Test > >>Finished Transaction Test > >>Transaction Test Succeeded > >>Running Transaction > >> Installing: kernel ######################### [1/1] > >>Traceback (most recent call last): > >> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ? > >> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > >> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 146, in main > >> base.doTransaction() > >> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 713, in doTransaction > >> self.runTransaction(cb=cb) > >> File "__init__.py", line 338, in runTransaction > >> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/callback.py", line 133, in callback > >> self.filelog(0, msg) > >> File "logger.py", line 258, in log > >> File "logger.py", line 232, in gen_prefix > >> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 41, in printtime > >> locale.resetlocale(locale.LC_TIME) > >> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/locale.py", line 391, in resetlocale > >> _setlocale(category, _build_localename(getdefaultlocale())) > >>locale.Error: unsupported locale setting > >> > >>I would appreciate it if someone can tell me what this means and how to fix it: > >>FWIW the transaction appears to have succeeded. The kernel I installed is in the > >>rpm database. > >> > >>Tom Diehl tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Yum mailing list > >>Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > Danny Smith > Freelance Systems Consultant > e: danny@xxxxxxxxxxx > t: 07970 404 229 > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > Tom Diehl tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
