Fedora Users — Re: Wierd YUM error :S Help Please!

2010/12/10 Leonid Flaks <flaks@xxxxxxx>

On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
This just started today, Yesterday everything seem to be fine, but today
I tried to install a program via YUM and Konsole returned me a Wierd error,

This error repeats with every YUM task I try to perform, se my output:

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 258, in user_main

   errcode = main(args)

  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main

   base.doLock()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1593, in doLock

   while not self._lock(lockfile, mypid, 0644):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1653, in _lock

   errmsg = _('Could not create lock at %s: %s ') % (filename, str(msg))

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)

Why is this happening? How can I fix it?

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I saw similar message the other day. Removing files /var/lib/rpm/__db.* fixed it for me. I also cleaned yum cache first, but not sure if it was important.
HTH

Leon

The Problem is SOLVED. I was reading at some french forum and the user that reported a similar

problem said that one day later, everything was working fine without doing anything. and that happened

to me. Today everything works fine.

@Hugh: I wasn't running any YUM process, and I was using the commands as superuser,

so it has permisson to "use" the process, I wasn't running anything as normal user.

@Stan: I tought about cleaning YUM database and making cache, but it didn't worked.

Any YUM command returned the same output.

Anyway, thank's for your help. problem seem to be solved.

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<-Manuel Escudero->
Linux User #509052
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