yum & rpm showing errors

harris4got · 10-15-2009, 10:45 AM

Hello

I use a fedora 8 system. I had tried upgrading it to 10 before sometime. But some errors prevented me from doing so. Then onwards yum or rpm wouldnt install new softwares.Here is the error for yum update

Code:

# yum update
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 309, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 178, in getOptionsConfig
    pc = self.preconf
AttributeError: 'YumBaseCli' object has no attribute 'preconf'

And the error for rpm:

Code:

rpm -ivh python-mutagen-1.9-1.fc8.rf.noarch.rpm 
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30975)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
warning: python-mutagen-1.9-1.fc8.rf.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1aa78495
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30975) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

so i delete the db & rebuild it

Code:

# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rm: remove regular empty file `/var/lib/rpm/__db.000'? y
rm: remove regular file `/var/lib/rpm/__db.001'? y
rm: remove regular file `/var/lib/rpm/__db.002'? y
rm: remove regular file `/var/lib/rpm/__db.003'? y
rm: remove regular file `/var/lib/rpm/__db.004'? y

# rpm -v --rebuilddb

# yum clean all 
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 309, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 178, in getOptionsConfig
    pc = self.preconf
AttributeError: 'YumBaseCli' object has no attribute 'preconf'

Again the same error with yum.
Any help is appreciated.

favoretti · 10-15-2009, 11:01 AM

Can you do "grep -r preconf /etc/yum*" and see if there are any lines containing "preconf" in the configuration?
If there's one, either paste it here, or try commenting out.

harris4got · 10-15-2009, 11:14 AM

grep -r preconf /etc/yum* shows nothing..

knudfl · 10-15-2009, 01:32 PM

The 'yum' "python".py files looked for are in
/usr/share/yum-cli/
and
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/

But you may be out of luck using yum, as Fedora 8
was obsoleted January 2009.
May be by changing the repo link to "the old archive" :
e.g. i386
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pu...thing/i386/os/
.....

lazlow · 10-15-2009, 02:37 PM

If you tried updating it to F10 via yum, that is the source of the issue. Fedora does(always has and probably always will) only officially support doing a clean install for upgrades.

harris4got · 10-15-2009, 02:57 PM

The problem it seems is not with the repositories, even yum -v gives the same error

# yum -v
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 309, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 178, in getOptionsConfig
pc = self.preconf
AttributeError: 'YumBaseCli' object has no attribute 'preconf'

Cant understand what is causing the problem.

lazlow · 10-15-2009, 04:17 PM

The problem is not JUST the repos. When you attempted to upgraded you wound up with a mix of F8 and F10 packages. The vast majority of these packages are not compatible.

chrism01 · 10-15-2009, 07:57 PM

Lazlow is correct; give it up. Backup any data/cfgs you can't live without and do a fresh install (F10).
If /home is on a separate partition, you can preserve that during the install, but take a backup just in case.
If you want a stable long term RH style OS, switch to Centos; I did.
Each Fedora only lasts 13 mths...

harris4got · 10-15-2009, 10:59 PM

Thank you all,but I thought there would be a way out of this without a fresh install. But thanks anyway.

John VV · 10-15-2009, 11:15 PM

nope do a fresh install , and welcome to the fedora "mare-go-round "
sometimes a upgrade from one to the next works ( fedora 9 to 10 might ) but there were to many changes in 11 that a upgrade is not relay possible for 11

fresh install.