[Yum] Problems using yum 2.0.7 on Linux redhat 9

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Oct 19 14:22:06 UTC 2004


> [root at rntlinux1 VDC-1.0.1.RedHat.9]# yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 233, in main
>     clientStuff.get_package_info_from_servers(serverlist, HeaderInfo)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 846, in get_package_info_from_servers
>     progress_obj=None)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 1327, in grab
>     bandwidth, conf.retries, retrycodes, checkfunc)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 237, in retrygrab
>     progress_obj, throttle, bandwidth)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 314, in urlgrab
>     fo = urllib2.urlopen(url)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 138, in urlopen
>     return _opener.open(url, data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 322, in open
>     '_open', req)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 301, in _call_chain
>     result = func(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 450, in <lambda>
>     lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 457, in proxy_open
>     if '@' in host:
> TypeError: iterable argument required

Do you have a proxy you're going through?

-sv





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