Problems with yum! - Redhat

Hi

I'm having problems running 'yum -y update'
please can someone help me... thanks!

I get the following errors afterwards:


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main
result, resultmsgs = do()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 481, in doCommands
return self.updatePkgs()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 957, in updatePkgs
self.doRepoSetup()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 82, in doRepoSetup
self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 291, in
doSackSetup
self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 289, in
populateSack
dobj = repo.cacheHandler.getPrimary(xml, csum)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 96, in
getPrimary
return self._getbase(location, checksum, 'primary')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 89, in
_getbase
self.updateSqliteCache(db, parser, checksum, metadatatype)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 373, in
updateSqliteCache
cur.execute("DELETE FROM "+table+ " where pkgKey in %s" % delpkgs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 244, in
execute
self.rs = self.con.db.execute(SQL)
_sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed

Stan wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm having problems running 'yum -y update'
> please can someone help me... thanks!
>
> I get the following errors afterwards:

Rebuild your current version of yum from the source rpm file. Want a better
answer provide more information. please have a look at;

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html


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Lenard wrote:

> Stan wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm having problems running 'yum -y update'
>> please can someone help me... thanks!
>>
>> I get the following errors afterwards:
>
> Rebuild your current version of yum from the source rpm file. Want a
> better answer provide more information. please have a look at;
>
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html
>
>

Thanks! I've actually done so but I still have the same problem. Is there
any other way to solve this problem? I will really appreciate if anyone can
help!

Stan wrote:

> self.rs = self.con.db.execute(SQL)
> _sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed


Hi Stan. I'm just taking a guess here... but the error message
looks like a corrupted SQLite file:

"sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed"

Yum maintains several sqlite databases. The command "yum makecache" will rebuild
several of them. Dunno if this will help or not, but may be worth a try.
--
Greg

Greg Hackney wrote:

> Stan wrote:
>
>> self.rs = self.con.db.execute(SQL)
>> _sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed
>
>
> Hi Stan. I'm just taking a guess here... but the error message
> looks like a corrupted SQLite file:
>
> "sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed"
>
> Yum maintains several sqlite databases. The command "yum makecache" will
> rebuild several of them. Dunno if this will help or not, but may be worth
> a try. --
> Greg


Thank you Greg!

This command did not solve the problem directly but it gave me the idea to
try the following sequentially:

1.) yum clean metadata
2.) yum clean dbcache
3.) yum makecache

as I'm writing this message, the process is still going on... this might
solve my problem. I'll still post a message here if all is OK or not!!!

Thanks!

Stan wrote:

> Greg Hackney wrote:
>
>> Stan wrote:
>>
>>> self.rs = self.con.db.execute(SQL)
>>> _sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed
>>
>>
>> Hi Stan. I'm just taking a guess here... but the error message
>> looks like a corrupted SQLite file:
>>
>> "sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed"
>>
>> Yum maintains several sqlite databases. The command "yum makecache" will
>> rebuild several of them. Dunno if this will help or not, but may be worth
>> a try. --
>> Greg
>
>
> Thank you Greg!
>
> This command did not solve the problem directly but it gave me the idea to
> try the following sequentially:
>
> 1.) yum clean metadata
> 2.) yum clean dbcache
> 3.) yum makecache
>
> as I'm writing this message, the process is still going on... this might
> solve my problem. I'll still post a message here if all is OK or not!!!
>
> Thanks!


I can 100% say now that all is OK again with yum.
Thanks a million Greg and Lenard for your help!