[Yum] yum traceback

[James Antill]

"Steven H. Smith" <shs at earthlink.net> writes:

> did a yum update on CentOS 5.2 last night.  Updated 530MB of packages,
> one which was rpm-4.4.2.  Now I get the following error on yum update:
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
>     self._read_db_obj(db_obj)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 94, in
> _read_db_obj
>     setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item]))
> TypeError: unsubscriptable object

 This is the yum-metadata-parser error that's hitting a lot of
CentOS-5.2 updates (no idea why atm.)

 Fix for y-m-p is here:

http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/patches/yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-no-updates.patch

...CentOS owners know about it and are likely to do an update.
 Just run "yum clean metadata" to fix it in the short term.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org