On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:58:24 -0700, Admin Admin wrote: > Hello, > > When I am trying the instructions at: > http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/ Building_a_Xen_Guest_Root_Filesystem_using_yum_and_rpm > > and using yum, I am getting the following errors: Note that the yum version is very important, this looks like a _very_ old version. > ===================================================== $ yum > --installroot=/xen/vm2/root -y groupinstall Base Setting up Group > Process > Setting up repositories > base 100% > |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates > 100% > |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons > 100% > |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras > 100% > |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 comps.xml > 100% > |=========================| 914 kB 00:03 Traceback (most recent call > last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 27, in <module> > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 92, in > main > result, resultmsgs = do() > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 555, in > doCommands > self.doGroupSetup() > File > "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/yum/__init__.py", line 325, in > doGroupSetup > self.groupInfo.add(groupfile) > File > "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/yum/Errors.py", line 55, in __init__ > YumBaseError.__init__(self) > File > "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/yum/Errors.py", line 25, in __init__ > self.args = args > TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable > ===================================================== This looks identical to: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214119 ...if it is the best fix IMO is to get a much newer yum version. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx C String APIs use too much memory? ustr: length, ref count, size and read-only/fixed. Ave. 44% overhead over strdup(), for 0-20B strings http://www.and.org/ustr/ _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
