Problem with yum after upgrading

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:22 PM +0200 7/3/07, Frank wrote:
>  Hello list.
>
>  I did an unsupported upgrade of my system from FC5 -> FC6 -> F7
> and now i need unofficial help :)
>
>  Problem is, that my yum is failing when doing bigger things. Bigger means,
> that a "yum install xxx" or "yum uninstall yyy" is working as long as
>there are
> no bigger dependencies. When doing something bigger I get an error message
> like the following:
>
>########
>[root at mimas ~]# yum groupupdate Base
>Setting up Group Process
>fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
>updates                   100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    00:00
>primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 3.8 MB    00:16
>Package parted - 1.8.6-4.fc7.i386 already installed and latest version
>Package logrotate - 3.7.5-3.1.fc7.i386 already installed and latest version
>Package at - 3.1.10-11.fc7.i386 already installed and latest version
>Package traceroute - 3:2.0.3-1.1.fc7.i386 already installed and latest version
>Package crontabs - 1.10-14.fc7.noarch already installed and latest version
>Package bzip2 - 1.0.4-10.fc7.i386 already installed and latest version
>Package tmpwatch - 2.9.11-1.i386 already installed and latest version
>Package vixie-cron - 4:4.1-82.fc7.i386 already installed and latest version
>[...]
>Resolving Dependencies
>--> Running transaction check
>---> Package firstboot-tui.noarch 0:1.4.35-1.fc7 set to be updated
>---> Package krb5-workstation.i386 0:1.6.1-2.1.fc7 set to be updated
>Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 127, in
>searchPrco
>    if not result.has_key(po.pkgid):
>TypeError: list objects are unhashable
>######
>
>  I have already deinstalled and reinstalled yum and python-2.5 but
>that didn't help.
> I guess I might have some old library somewhere on the system that is
>not in the
> RPM database, but I didn't find one by now.
>
>  BTW, i did the same upgrade on another system (to be exact a bit more, from
> FC4 up to F7) last week and that one is running without any problems.
>
>  Does someone have a hint for me maybe?

Bugzilla, I think.  The message "list objects are unhashable" seems like a
bug in yum and shouldn't be caused by doing a yum upgrade.  I note that you
are doing "yum group*" commands, which aren't used so much.  Does a "yum
update" also faile?
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