[Yum] yum traceback

[Steven H. Smith]

Yum clean all did the trick.

Thanks for the help!


On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:08 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> "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.
>