Re: yum clean all returns "listed more than once" error (RHEL5.2)

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:34:23PM +0200, denis wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> For some reason or other yum has started to complain about my
> repositories being listed more than once.
> 
> This might, or might not, be related to an update occuring last week:
> 
> "Aug 15 12:59:01 Updated: yum-rhn-plugin - 0.5.3-12.el5_2.9.noarch"
> 
> (Systems where this error appears are all RHEL5u2, and yum package is
> yum-3.2.8-9.el5_2.1)
> 
> I have tried to remove the individual .repo files from my
> /etc/yum.repos.d/, but unless that folder is empty yum complains with
> the same error (for the repo that remains).
> 
> I tried to see if someone/something had added configuration to yum with
> repoinfo somewhere else by using strace :
> 
> (strace -e trace=all 2> yumdebug.log ; grep reponame yumdebug.log)
> 
> stat("///etc/yum.repos.d/reponame.repo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=175, ...}) = 0
> stat("/etc/yum.repos.d/reponame.repo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=175, ...}) = 0
> open("/etc/yum.repos.d/reponame.repo", O_RDONLY) = 4
> read(4, "[reponame]\nname=RepoName"..., 4096) = 175
> write(2, "\n\nRepository reponame is li"..., 73
> Repository reponame is listed more than once in the configuration
> 
> >From the above it does not seem to me that "reponame" is actually
> defined more than once, if it was surely [reponame] would appear in more
> than one read?
> 
> The last strace output before yum dies is :
> 
> open("//var/cache/yum", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = 5
> fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> fcntl(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)           = 0
> getdents(5, /* 15 entries */, 4096)     = 584
> getdents(5, /* 0 entries */, 4096)      = 0
> close(5)                                = 0
> gettimeofday({1219227761, 177787}, NULL) = 0
> 
> Any hints / tips to what to do to debug this further?
> 
> 
> Regards
> --
> Denis Braekhus
> 
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This is a known issue with yum-rhn-plugin that shipped with RHEL 5.2.
There's a BZ with a patch if you are interested.  I think it slated to
be included in RHEL 5.3 but not before.

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448012

Jack
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