Re: yum error "AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE" after 4.5 -> 4.6 upgrade

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Joe Klemmer escribió:
>
> Hello all,
>
>     I am having a problem running yum after doing the 4.6 upgrade.  I
> did a live update through yum and no problems were encountered. 
> However, now when I try to run yum (with any commands/options) I get
> this error right after loading/reading the repo's -
>
> eading repository metadata in from local files
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 102, in main
>     result, resultmsgs = do()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 489, in doCommands
>     ypl = self.returnPkgLists()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1085, in returnPkgLists
>     ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow)
>   File "__init__.py", line 993, in doPackageLists
>   File "packageSack.py", line 148, in searchNevra
>   File "packageSack.py", line 236, in _computeAggregateListResult
>   File "sqlitesack.py", line 514, in searchNevra
>   File "sqlitesack.py", line 403, in db2class
>   File
> "/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py",
> line 97, in __getattr__
> AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE
>
>     Running "yum clean all" seems to work but the error does not go away.
>
>     I know less than nothing about python so that doesn't help.  I
> also did a search through the list archives and on Google but couldn't
> come up with anything (OC, I may not have been asking the right
> questions).  The server has a bad optical drive so I can't boot into
> the rescue CD (yet, I've got a replacement coming).  Whenever it gets
> here I'll be updating to 5.1 but in the mean time there's some
> security fixes that have come down the pipe which I can't update to
> due to yum being petulant.
>
>     If anyone can shed some light on this or point me in the right
> direction to get this fixed it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Joe
>

Hello Joe,

I had exactly the same problem. I guess that the problem is the yum
version upgraded. To solve it I searched for an older yum version. I
found this one: yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch. And at least it works.

Hope it helps

-- 



Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez
Consultor de seguridad informática
 

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