yum playing silly sods

[Ricardo Veguilla]

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 17:26 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason, yum keeps giving me this when I try to do an update -
> anyone seeing the same?
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 149, in ?
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 96, in main
>     (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 168, in
> buildTransaction
>     (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 170, in
> resolveDeps
>     self.populateTs(test=1)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 128, in
> populateTs
>     self.downloadHeader(po)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 418, in
> downloadHeader
>     end=end, checkfunc=checkfunc, copy_local=1)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 432, in get
>     checkfunc=checkfunc)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line
> 414, in urlgrab
>     return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line
> 400, in _mirror_try
>     return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs )
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 597, in urlgrab
>     return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 529, in _retry
>     return apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 583, in retryfunc
>     fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 705, in __init__
>     self._do_open()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 749, in _do_open
>     fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
> 832, in _make_request
>     if isinstance(e.reason, TimeoutError):
> AttributeError: IOError instance has no attribute 'reason'
> 
> yum 2.1.7-2
> 

I was having the same problem, did a "yum clean all", and now yum is
working ok. I was going to file a bug after yum finish updating (just to
be sure its working alright).
 
Regards,
-- 
Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla at hpcf.upr.edu>