[Yum] traceback encountered

[Robert G. Brown]

On 6 Sep 2002, seth vidal wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 11:28, Troy Dawson wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > This traceback might be a problem on the machine's end, and not yum.  I just 
> > need a little pointing in the right direction.
> > 
> > The problem is on a 7.3 machine, with rpm 4.0.4, python 1.5.2-38, and as far 
> > as I can tell, pretty much like any other machine.  It is a laptop, if that 
> > has anthing to do with anything.  Here is the traceback
> > 
> 
> You've got a borked header, Like rob said. You should be able to run yum
> clean headers and have it remove the headers - yum needs a better
> "header checking" mechanism to determine if a header is fubarred or not.

Or at least a better error recovery mechanism, so it fails with some
message like:  

  You may have a borked header -- try running "yum clean headers".

instead of the indecipherable python messages.  Does python let you trap
errors and exit with your own messages?

   rgb

> 
> -sv
> 
> 

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