[CentOS] yum update fails / problem

Fri Nov 18 09:10:01 UTC 2011
Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>

Hi,

may be someone has an idea what's broken on one of our RH EL 6.1 server.
I tried all suggestions from the centosforum
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20237 but
without success.

Thanks for any suggestion . best Regards . Götz


Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
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 274, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 129, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 432, in doCommands
    self._getTs(needTsRemove)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in
_getTs
    self._getTsInfo(remove_only)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 110, in
_getTsInfo
    pkgSack = self.pkgSack
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 882, in
<lambda>
    pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 668, in
_getSacks
    self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 260, in
populateSack
    self.doSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 72, in doSetup
    self.ayum.plugins.run('prereposetup')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 184, in run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 121, in prereposetup_hook
    str(e))
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateErrors.py", line 177, in
__repr__
    "The message was:\n") + self.errmsg
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6:
ordinal not in range(128)



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