Re: yum failing to install httpd

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Alan Batie wrote:

> A yum update worked, seems like something wrong with the httpd package,
> or at least something triggered by it?  If I read this right, it's
> crashing trying to look for dependencies?
>
> [102] # yum install httpd
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net
> * base: linux.mirrors.es.net
> * updates: mirror.nic.uoregon.edu
> * addons: mirror.hmc.edu
> * extras: mirrors.tummy.com
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package httpd.i386 0:2.2.3-22.el5.centos set to be updated
> 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 696, in
> resolveDeps
>    CheckDeps, checkinstalls, checkremoves, missing =
> self._resolveRequires(errors)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 779, in
> _resolveRequires
>    thisneeds = self._checkInstall(txmbr)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 851, in
> _checkInstall
>    provs = self.tsInfo.getProvides(*req)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line
> 432, in getProvides
>    result.update(self.getNewProvides(name, flag, version))
>  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

Run yum clean all

then run it again.

It's a known bug and it will be solved in a yum-metadata-parser update for 
rhel5 and centos5.

-sv