I've just rebuilt my VPS using CentOS.
I've run "yum update" but it doesn't complete as I get the following error message.
Similarly "yum upgrade" won't complete either. Please help!
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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 145, in main
(result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 647, in buildTransaction
(rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 704, in resolveDeps
for po, dep in self._checkFileRequires():
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 939, in _checkFileRequires
if not self.tsInfo.getOldProvides(filename) and not self.tsInfo.getNewProvides(filename):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line 414, in getNewProvides
for pkg, hits in self.pkgSack.getProvides(name, flag, version).iteritems():
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 300, in getProvides
return self._computeAggregateDictResult("getProvides", name, flags, version)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 470, in _computeAggregateDictResult
sackResult = apply(method, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 861, in getProvides
return self._search("provides", name, flags, version)
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 837, in _search
for pkg in self.searchFiles(name, strict=True):
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
Solution:
yum clean metadata
yum clean all
yum update
