[SOLVED] Error on yum update

[bart3005]

Hi

Gettig this on yum update, it is trying to update the rpm packages. If I excelude the rpm package the update works so appears not to be an issue with yum of the rpm DBs but rather the packages.

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py:761: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
if checksum == sql_checksum:
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 321, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in main
return_code = base.doTransaction()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 646, in doTransaction
resultobject = self.runTransaction(cb=cb)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1631, in runTransaction
self.skipped_packages, rpmdb_problems, cmdline)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 941, in beg
pid = self.pkg2pid(txmbr.po)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 798, in pkg2pid
return self._ipkg2pid(po, create)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 792, in _ipkg2pid
return self._pkgtup2pid(po.pkgtup, csum, create)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 775, in _pkgtup2pid
checksum))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/sqlutils.py", line 168, in executeSQLQmark
return cursor.execute(query, params)
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.

[goodfella]

I stopped using yum because it has screw up my system more than once. Then I had to re-install. YUM is YUCK.

[nonamedotc]

Your yum database is corrupt I think. You might have to resync your database with repositories. Take a look at man pages for yumdb.

---------- Post added at 10:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:24 AM ----------

If the sync does not work as expected, you can use the option sync-force.

[bob]

Goodfella, sorry to take this off-topic a bit, but may I ask what you're using to update if not yum? As far as I can remember, neither apt nor smart is working well (if at all) in current Fedora versions.

Never had a problem with yum myself, but I'm careful what repos I enable.

[goodfella]

Originally Posted by bob

Goodfella, sorry to take this off-topic a bit, but may I ask what you're using to update if not yum? As far as I can remember, neither apt nor smart is working well (if at all) in current Fedora versions.

Never had a problem with yum myself, but I'm careful what repos I enable.

Bob, I use Package Manager for Gnome recently. I usually build from source which gives
me total control of what gets installed.

[bart3005]

I have tried various thing and cant get this to work.

yumdb sync-force
rpmdb --rebuilddb
fsck on the filesystem

All commands complete fine.

Just fails on the rpm packages. If I do a 'yum update --exclude=rpm --skip-broken' the updates works Ok but with out updating rpm and depandacies. kinda bugging me.

[bart3005]

BTW I fixed this by downloading the packages manually from the repo and doing a 'rpm -Uvh' on them.

[nonamedotc]

Are you able to update succesfully with yum now that rpm package has been fixed? Just curious.