Yumex errors after running Fedora updates

[Anthony Irven Scott]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 22:48 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Friday, Nov 14th 2008 at 14:34 -0000, quoth Alex Makhlin:
> 
> =>Hi all,
> =>
> =>I just installed the latest fedora updates and now Yumex no longer works. I am
> =>getting the following errors when trying to open Yumex.
> =>
> =>Error Type: <class 'yum.update_md.UpdateNoticeException'>
> =>Error Value: No id element found
> => File : /usr/share/yumex/yumex.py , line 737, in <module>
> =>   mainApp = YumexApplication()
> => File : /usr/share/yumex/yumex.py , line 446, in __init__
> =>   self.setupYum()
> => File : /usr/share/yumex/yumex.py , line 467, in setupYum
> =>   self.yumbase._setupBase()
> => File : /usr/share/yumex/yumapi.py , line 80, in _setupBase
> =>   self._setupUpdateMetadata()
> => File : /usr/share/yumex/yumapi.py , line 137, in _setupUpdateMetadata
> =>   self.updateMetadata.add(repo)
> => File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/update_md.py , line 319, in add
> =>   un = UpdateNotice(elem)
> => File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/update_md.py , line 69, in
> =>__init__
> =>   self._parse(elem)
> => File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/update_md.py , line 146, in
> =>_parse
> =>   raise UpdateNoticeException("No id element found")
> =>
> =>I am using Python 2.6 and have tried to update Yumex but I get prompted that I
> =>need Pyhthon abi 2.4 or greater to install. I am running Python abi 2.6 so
> =>that should not be the problem (unless Yumex is not compatible with Python
> =>2.6). Anyone know an answer to this problem?
> 
> I just used yumex a few days ago and it worked fine. Now I get exactly the 
> same error. Is it the case that there's external data that's causing the 
> bug to manifest? I'd be happy to provide more data if someone can tell me 
> what it is they want.
> 
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> 
This thread at FedoraForums will fix your problem.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204203
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