[CentOS] Yum update issues

[Greg Bailey]

On 03/16/2016 12:31 AM, John Cenile wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> When running yum update on a few of our servers, we get the following
> errors:

> [snip]

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 470, in
> callback
>      self._scriptStop(bytes, total, h);
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 636, in
> _scriptStop
>      name, txmbr = self._getTxmbr(h)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 331, in
> _getTxmbr
>      assert len(txmbrs) == 1
> AssertionError
> error: python callback <bound method RPMTransaction.callback of
> <yum.rpmtrans.RPMTransaction instance at 0x3a69050>> failed, aborting!
>

This looks like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259527

which I believe to be a bug in yum, that I also hit while running 
CloudLinux.

In my case, I removed "cpuspeed" (rpm -e cpuspeed) before running "yum 
upgrade" to upgrade all of the other components.

-Greg