[Yum] problems reinstalling yum

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:36 +0200, Roland Ziegler (dopoly GmbH) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 12:40 +0200, Roland Ziegler (dopoly GmbH) wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>I recently tried to reinstall yum by removing the rpms from my FC4 
> >>system using "rpm --erase yum-2.3.2-7" and installing it again using 
> >>"rpm -Uvh yum-2.3.2-7.noarch.rpm". After doing this, I receive the 
> >>following error message while starting yum regardless what parameters I use:
> >>
> >>Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?
> >>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> >>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 34, in main
> >>    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> >>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 379, in setlocale
> >>    return _setlocale(category, locale)
> >>locale.Error: unsupported locale setting
> >>
> >>I even tried to reinstall python (the same way like yum) and installed 
> >>different versions of yum but nothing did help up to now.
> >>
> >>Does anyone of you have an idea how to fix that?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >use a more recent version of yum.
> >
> >yum 2.4.1 or 2.4.2 should be in updates-released from FC4.
> >
> >-sv
> >  
> >
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> I've updated now to yum-2.4.1-1.fc4 but the error message has only 
> slightly changed:
> 
> 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 67, in main
>     locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/locale.py", line 379, in setlocale
>     return _setlocale(category, locale)
> locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

looks like this fix is only in yum 2.4.2 - not in 2.4.1

-sv