Wierd YUM error :S Help Please!

Leonid Flaks flaks at bnl.gov
Fri Dec 10 19:07:23 UTC 2010


On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
> This just started today, Yesterday everything seem to be fine, but today
> I tried to install a program via YUM and Konsole returned me a Wierd 
> error,
> This error repeats with every YUM task I try to perform, se my output:
>
> 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 258, in user_main
>     errcode = main(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main
>     base.doLock()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1593, 
> in doLock
>     while not self._lock(lockfile, mypid, 0644):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1653, 
> in _lock
>     errmsg = _('Could not create lock at %s: %s ') % (filename, str(msg))
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 
> 24: ordinal not in range(128)
>
>
> Why is this happening? How can I fix it?
>
>
> -- 
> <-Manuel Escudero->
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I saw similar message the other day. Removing files /var/lib/rpm/__db.* 
fixed it for me. I also cleaned yum cache first, but not sure if it was 
important.
HTH

Leon
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