Topic: Error when using YUM

[Teviot]

I have a proble with YUM.  Every time I try to check the reposity's is get the following responce.

Yum check repository report
Software error:
Error running yum info updates.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

Can anyone help me.

Thanks in Advance
Adrian

[djhomeless]

Are you doing this from the command line or the web interface?

[Teviot]

Posted: 16 Jan 2005 18:31    Post subject: Error when using YUM

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I have a proble with YUM. Every time I try to check the reposity's is get the following responce.

Quote:
Yum check repository report
Software error:
Error running yum info updates.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
 


Can anyone help me.

Thanks in Advance
Adrian

Are you doing this from the command line or the web interface?

Yes i am

[mbachmann]

You cannot reply yes to an "or" question, because nobody will understand wich "or" you have in mind.

[djhomeless]

You cannot reply yes to an "or" question, because nobody will understand wich "or" you have in mind.

Unless your goal is to confuse us!

[Teviot]

how about instead of caring on ... answer the question

[silva]

this message shows up when you are using the web interface. Have you tried running yum from the command line? which version on yum are you using, 1 or 2 ? also do you have any repositories configured?
often, without the right information it can be difficult to figure out the problem.

[nicbaxter]

Hi teviot
I had this issue after I upgraded by Python from 1.5 to 2.0.  I just linked /usr/bin/python back to /usr/bin/python1.5 and it worked again.  I mean to investigate further but ran out of time.

Cheers
Nic

[Teviot]

Hello Nic

how do I do what you suggest?

Regards
Adrian

Hi teviot
I had this issue after I upgraded by Python from 1.5 to 2.0. I just linked /usr/bin/python back to /usr/bin/python1.5 and it worked again. I mean to investigate further but ran out of time.

Cheers
Nic

[nicbaxter]

Hi Adrian
The first thing to do is check which version of python you are using so from a command prompt type:
ls -l /usr/bin/python
I get a result like:
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Feb  1 13:50 /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python1.5
If your's points to a version other than python1.5 then you may have the same issue as me.  Linking python back to 1.5 may fix thenyum issue but may break another program  if it requires a later version.  Still its worth a go.  You can always change the link back later.
So login in as root and remove the link by:
rm /usr/bin/python
then:
ln -s /usr/bin/python1.5 /usr/bin/python
he new link will be created.  Check it by doing:
ls -l /usr/bin/python
the result should be the same as mine.
If you want to go back to the previous then deleted the link again and link to your other version of python like:
ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

cheers

Nic