Re: Yum problem -

Bob Goodwin wrote:

Suddenly a problem with yum and yumex. It appears that when I invoke either I get an error message such as:

yum update yum
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Options Error: Error parsing '3\t#2008.03.26': invalid integer value

I tried rm rpm /var/lib/rpm__db* which helped in the past but to no avail today.

Any suggestions welcome.

Bob Goodwin

   Component: pirut
   Summary: TB65e8237b config.py:84:__set__:ValueError: Error parsing
   '3\t#2008.03.26': invalid integer value

   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 611, in <module>
       main()
     File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 603, in main
       pup = PackageUpdater(not options.autoapply, options.config)
     File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 80, in __init__
       GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line
   132, in __init__
       plugin_types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
     File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 116,
   in doConfigSetup
       errorlevel=errorlevel)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 162,
   in _getConfig
       self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 644,
   in readMainConfig
       yumconf.populate(startupconf._parser, 'main')
     File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 401,
   in populate
       setattr(self, name, value)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 84, in
   __set__
       raise ValueError('Error parsing %r: %s' % (value, str(e)))
   ValueError: Error parsing '3\t#2008.03.26': invalid integer value

Bob Goodwin