Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: > 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. That is the LATEST yum for centos-4 ... where did you get a NEWER one that??? Where ever you got it from, that is what broke your system. > > Hope it helps > Hmmm ... not sure what is happening, but this command could help (all one line): rpm -q yum yum-metadata-parser sqlite python-sqlite python-urlgrabber python-elementtree python The results should be: yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.el4.centos sqlite-3.3.6-2 python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1 python-urlgrabber-2.9.8-2 python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.el4.centos python-2.3.4-14.4.el4_6.1 You can manually download and install any of those that are missing from: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/ OR http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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