[Yum] Re: TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

[Admin Admin]

--- James Antill <james at and.org> wrote:

> 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 at and.org
> 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/
> 
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Thanks for your response.

It is version number 2.4.0-3.1. Here is the output
from dpkg -l yum:

||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  yum            2.4.0-3.1      Advanced front-end
for rpm