On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:01 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am getting the the following error on 5.3 x86_64
>
> yum provides "*/identify"
>
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> * base: mirror.steadfast.net
> * updates: ftp.lug.udel.edu
> * addons: centos.cs.wisc.edu
> * extras: centos.cs.wisc.edu
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
> 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 343, in doCommands
> return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self,
> self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 511, in doCommand
> return base.provides(extcmds)
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 737, in provides
> callback_has_matchfor=True)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1685, in
> searchPackageProvides
> where = self.pkgSack.searchAll(arg, False)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 420,
> in searchAll
> return self._computeAggregateListResult("searchAll", arg, query_type)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 455,
> in _computeAggregateListResult
> sackResult = apply(method, args)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 459,
> in searchAll
> return self.searchPrco(name, 'provides')
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in
> newFunc
> return func(*args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 931,
> in searchPrco
> results.extend(self.searchFiles(name))
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in
> newFunc
> return func(*args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 586,
> in searchFiles
> self._sql_pkgKey2po(rep, cur, pkgs)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 470,
> in _sql_pkgKey2po
> pkg = self._packageByKey(repo, ob['pkgKey'])
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 413,
> in _packageByKey
> po = self.pc(repo, cur.fetchone())
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 68, in
> __init__
> self._read_db_obj(db_obj)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 94, in
> _read_db_obj
> setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item]))
> TypeError: unsubscriptable object
>
> Any ideas?
----
after you upgrade rpm from 5.3 upgrade, it seems that you need to clean
something in yum and I am lazy so I tell it 'yum clean all' and then it
just seems to work.
Craig
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