FC6: yum problem: unknown url type: media
Hans Müller
ndof at gmx.li
Sat Oct 28 06:53:05 UTC 2006
Kevin Layer schrieb:
> Some details. If I add the `print' below to
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py:
>
> class YumAvailablePackageSqlite(YumAvailablePackage):
> ...
> def returnSimple(self, varname):
> ...
> c.execute(query)
> r = c.fetchone()
> self.simple[varname] = r[0]
> if varname == 'basepath':
> print "db query for %s returned %s\n" % (varname, r[0])
>
> it prints this:
>
> [root at relay ~]# yum install amanda
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for amanda to pack into transaction set.
> db query for basepath returned media://1161131669.029329#4
>
> media://1161131669.029329%234/Fedora/RPMS/amanda-2.5.0p2-4.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failed to retrieve Fedora/RPMS/amanda-2.5.0p2-4.i386.rpm from core
> error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
> [root at relay ~]#
>
>
> So, in the bad case, it's getting the media://... out of the database.
>
> How do I verify that the sqlite database is OK? Can it be rebuilt?
>
> I've done "yum clean all" and uninstalled yum (actually, anything with
> yum in the name) and reinstalled (with rpm). Same deal.
>
> The thought of going back to just rpm is a deal killer for me.
>
I have the same problem with FC6 on repos on file systems. With FC5 it works. So I think it is an bug.
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