"pickle" warning when running yum update

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:27:18 +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:

> Robin Bowes wrote:
> > Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > 
> >> Okay, that looks like original FC4. So, if
> >>
> >>   rpm -V yum python python-sqlite sqlite
> >>
> >> is happy, too (should not list any modified files), more investigation is
> >> needed. Is this with SELinux enabled? Does relabeling SELinux help?
> > 
> > 
> > Michael,
> > 
> > [root at dude ~]# rpm -V yum python python-sqlite sqlite
> > .......T  c /etc/yum.conf
> > ..?.....    /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/repomd/__init__.py
> > ..?.....    /usr/lib/python2.4/bsddb/test/__init__.py
> > ..?.....    /usr/lib/python2.4/email/test/__init__.py

The '?' means that file permissions prevented the test from reading
the file, which is weird. The files must be chmod 0644.

> > SELinux is disabled.
> 
> Just to confirm, I checked the files that returned a "?" from one of the 
> tests and they are all zero-length. I don't know if this is correct, or not.

It's okay in this case.

Next steps I would try is to "yum clean all ; yum makecache" or even
"rm -rf /var/cache/yum ; yum update".