yum update fails

Michael Harrison mrpquter at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 9 03:11:18 UTC 2009


Upgraded from F10 to F11 and everything works except yum. Doing a yum update shows the error:

Setting up Update Process
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 309, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 178, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 352, in doCommands
    return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 201, in doCommand
    return base.updatePkgs(extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 608, in updatePkgs
    self.update()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 2809, in update
    updates = self.up.getUpdatesTuples()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 662, in <lambda>
    up = property(fget=lambda self: self._getUpdates(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 563, in _getUpdates
    self._up.doObsoletes()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/updates.py", line 231, in doObsoletes
    if flag in [None, 0] or \
SystemError: null argument to internal routine

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Mike




      




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