Yum problem -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Mar 27 15:32:07 UTC 2008


Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> Suddenly a problem with yum and yumex. It appears that when I invoke 
> either I get an error message such as:
>
> yum update yum
> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Options Error: Error parsing '3\t#2008.03.26': invalid integer value
>
> I tried rm rpm /var/lib/rpm__db*  which helped in the past but to no 
> avail today.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
> Bob Goodwin
>

pup produces a more detailed error message which appears to stem from 
the same bit of corruption '3\t#2008.03.26':

    Component: pirut
    Summary: TB65e8237b config.py:84:__set__:ValueError: Error parsing
    '3\t#2008.03.26': invalid integer value

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 611, in <module>
        main()
      File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 603, in main
        pup = PackageUpdater(not options.autoapply, options.config)
      File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 80, in __init__
        GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line
    132, in __init__
        plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 116,
    in doConfigSetup
        errorlevel=errorlevel)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 162,
    in _getConfig
        self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 644,
    in readMainConfig
        yumconf.populate(startupconf._parser, 'main')
      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 401,
    in populate
        setattr(self, name, value)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 84, in
    __set__
        raise ValueError('Error parsing %r: %s' % (value, str(e)))
    ValueError: Error parsing '3\t#2008.03.26': invalid integer value
    ................................  snip  
    ...........................................

I am beginning to think about re-installing the system.  This is F7, it 
may be time to install F8 in this box, I had hoped to wait for F9 ...  
But I need yum running if the system is to stay updated.

Does anyone have any idea of what may have happened, better yet how to 
restore things?

Bob Goodwin




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