Hi folks.
I've still got a number of old F9 systems that are still doing a sturdy job
(and I don't have time to upgrade).
However, one of them has got a broken yum setup. Every time I try to do any
updates etc. I get the following. I've tried 'yum clean all' but that
hasn't
helped.
Any ideas what I need to do to fix it?
[root@groucho ~]# yum upgrade
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 339, in doCommands
self._getTs(needTsRemove)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 101, in _getTs
self._getTsInfo(remove_only)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 112, in
_getTsInfo
pkgSack = self.pkgSack
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 592, in
<lambda>
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 435, in
_getSacks
self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 251, in
populateSack
sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 162, in
populate
if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 223, in
_check_db_version
return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1147, in
_check_db_version
repoXML = self.repoXML
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1305, in
<lambda>
repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1297, in
_getRepoXML
self._loadRepoXML(text=self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1287, in
_loadRepoXML
return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, ["primary"])
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1271, in
_groupLoadRepoXML
if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1122, in
_commonLoadRepoXML
result = self._getFileRepoXML(local, text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 904, in
_getFileRepoXML
cache=self.http_caching == 'all')
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 744, in
_getFile
result = self.grab.urlgrab(misc.to_utf8(relative), local,
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 497, in
<lambda>
grab = property(lambda self: self._getgrab())
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 492, in
_getgrab
self._setupGrab()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 481, in
_setupGrab
self._grab = mgclass(self._grabfunc, self.urls,
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 602, in
<lambda>
urls = property(fget=lambda self: self._geturls(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 599, in
_geturls
self._baseurlSetup()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 559, in
_baseurlSetup
self.mirrorurls = self._replace_and_check_url(mirrorurls)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 594, in
_replace_and_check_url
print 'YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
\n Eg. %s' % misc.to_utf8(skipped)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 303, in write
data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1543:
ordinal not in range(128)
[root@groucho ~]#
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Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk