[Yum] KeyError: epoch

[David Timms]

Shawn Flack wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Flack
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:29 PM
> To: 'Yellowdog Updater, Modified'
> Subject: RE: [Yum] KeyError: epoch
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu
> [mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of David Timms
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:03 PM
> To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
> Subject: Re: [Yum] KeyError: epoch
> 
> Shawn Flack wrote:
>> Hello List
>>
>> I am running centos 4. When I run yum update I get this test and an error
>> that says KeyError: epoch.
>>
>> What could the issue be. Google has not been my friend in resolving this
>> so far.
>>
>> Below is the full text:
>>
>> [root at server yumtemp]# yum update
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>> rpmforge                  100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  61 kB    00:00
>> update    : ################################################## 188/188
>> Added 15 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.36 seconds
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.5 MB    00:03
>> rpmforge  :                                                   
>> 1/6485Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main
>>     result, resultmsgs = do()
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 477, in doCommands
>>     return self.updatePkgs()
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 955, in updatePkgs
>>     self.doRepoSetup()
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 75, in doRepoSetup
>>     self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo)
>>   File "__init__.py", line 260, in doSackSetup
>>   File "repos.py", line 287, in populateSack
>>   File "sqlitecache.py", line 96, in getPrimary
>>   File "sqlitecache.py", line 89, in _getbase
>>   File "sqlitecache.py", line 359, in updateSqliteCache
>>   File "sqlitecache.py", line 251, in addPrimary
>>   File "sqlitecache.py", line 197, in insertHash
>>   File "sqlitecache.py", line 449, in values
>>   File "sqlitecache.py", line 441, in __getitem__
>>   File "mdparser.py", line 73, in __getitem__
>> KeyError: 'epoch'
>>
>> If anyone knows what I am doing wrong I would much appreciate a point in
>> the right direction.
>> I'll hazard a guess that there is sqlite db is corrupt/duplicate primary 
>> key, but perhaps only with rpmforge. Try disabling that repo and check 
>> results.
>> yum --disablerepo=rpmforge update
> 
>> If still no go, perhaps a
>> yum clean dbcache
>> and retrying will get it. if not
>> yum clean metadata
>> and try again.
> 
>> Any output would be useful.
> 
>> DaveT.
> 
> 
> YES! That worked. What is the next step to fix the issue then?
> 
> Thank you so much... very frustrating. I'm obviously a linux newbie trying
> to find my way.
> 
> Sorry for replying to my own post but, the --disablerepo is what fixed it. I
> wasn't clear on the previous post.
> 
> My ultimate goal is to install clamav using yum. I just tried yum
> --disablerepo=rpmforge update
> 
> This is what I get:
> 
> 
> [root at server ~]# yum --disablerepo=rpmforge install clamav
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: clamav
> Nothing to do
OK, so now without disabling rpmforge, do you get the identical 
exception message from your first post ?

If so rm -R the /var/cache/yum/rpmforge  cache might help.

DaveT.