Yum problem after update on FC-3

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Nov 15 14:02:14 UTC 2004


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I upgraded to FC-3 on my laptop,
>>>and then ran "sudo yum update",
>>>which worked perfectly, downloading over 200 rpms.
>>>
>>>But now when I run "sudo yum update" I get the error
>>>===============================================
>>>[tim at william ~]$ sudo yum update
>>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 8, in ?
>>>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 51, in main
>>>    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>>>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 133, in getOptionsConfig
>>>    self.conf = yumconf(configfile = yumconffile, root=root)
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 227, in
>>>__init__
>>>    self._doFileRepo(fn)
>>
>>Hmm, python2.4; FC3 somes with python2.3 and the FC3 yum is installed
>>mainly in /usr/lib/python2.3; which version of yum are you using and
>>where did it come from?
> 
> 
> [tim at william 2004]$ yum --version
> 2.1.11
> [tim at william 2004]$ python -V
> Python 2.4b2
> 
> As I said, I upgraded from FC-3 test3 to FC-3,
> and yum worked perfectly,
> until _after_ I downloaded some 200 rpms with "yum upgrade".
> I see (from yum.log) that this did upgrade both yum and python.
> 
> The settings in /etc/yum.repos.d/ are those that came with FC-3;
> each of the files
> ==================================
> fedora-devel.repo
> fedora.repo
> fedora-updates.repo
> fedora-updates-testing.repo

I suspect you have "enabled=1" in either or both of fedora-devel.repo and 
fedora-updates-testing.repo; you appear to be running rawhide, not FC3 (i.e. 
you've upgraded *past* FC3).

Paul.




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