[Yum] yum on Centos 4.6 fails with invalid dependency on sqlite

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 08:35 +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> Hi, I am Centos 4.6 on x86-64. recently when I tried to do a yum -y
> check-update this is the output I get
> 
> [root at amd64 ~]# yum -y check-update
> Setting up repositories
> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  74 kB    00:01
> 
> (process:1999): GLib-CRITICAL **: file gtimer.c: line 106
> (g_timer_stop): assertion `timer != NULL' failed
> 
> (process:1999): GLib-CRITICAL **: file gtimer.c: line 88
> (g_timer_destroy): assertion `timer != NULL' failed
> 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 97, in main
>     result, resultmsgs = do()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 534, in doCommands
>     ypl = self.returnPkgLists()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1176, in returnPkgLists
>     ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow)
>   File "__init__.py", line 904, in doPackageLists
>   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 277, in populateSack
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 40,
> in getPrimary
>     self.repoid))
> TypeError: Can not create index on requires table: near "NOT": syntax error
> 
> I have done yum -y clean all
>                       yum clean metadata
> 
> but still get the same result
> 
> 
> versions of various tools which I think are relevant
> 
> 
> [root at amd64 ~]# rpm -qa | grep sqlite
> python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1
> sqlite-3.3.6-2
> sqlite-devel-3.3.6-2
> 
> [root at amd64 ~]# rpm -q rpm rpm-python yum python
> rpm-4.3.3-23_nonptl
> rpm-python-4.3.3-23_nonptl
> yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos
> python-2.3.4-14.4.el4_6.1

Have you asked this on a centos mailing list? B/c nothing here immediately looks out of sorts.

-sv