yum fails on old F9 system

[Gary Stainburn]

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 at 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 at groucho ~]# 

-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk