CentOS - Dec 2007 - yum error "AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE" after 4.5 -> 4.6 upgrade

Hello all,

     I am having a problem running yum after doing the 4.6 upgrade.  I did 
a live update through yum and no problems were encountered.  However, now 
when I try to run yum (with any commands/options) I get this error right 
after loading/reading the repo's -

eading repository metadata in from local files
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 102, in main
     result, resultmsgs = do()
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 489, in doCommands
     ypl = self.returnPkgLists()
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1085, in returnPkgLists
     ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow)
   File "__init__.py", line 993, in doPackageLists
   File "packageSack.py", line 148, in searchNevra
   File "packageSack.py", line 236, in _computeAggregateListResult
   File "sqlitesack.py", line 514, in searchNevra
   File "sqlitesack.py", line 403, in db2class
   File 
"/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py",
line 97, in __getattr__
AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE

     Running "yum clean all" seems to work but the error does not go
away.

     I know less than nothing about python so that doesn't help.  I also 
did a search through the list archives and on Google but couldn't come up 
with anything (OC, I may not have been asking the right questions).  The 
server has a bad optical drive so I can't boot into the rescue CD (yet, 
I've got a replacement coming).  Whenever it gets here I'll be updating
to
5.1 but in the mean time there's some security fixes that have come down 
the pipe which I can't update to due to yum being petulant.

     If anyone can shed some light on this or point me in the right 
direction to get this fixed it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Joe

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Joe Klemmer escribi?:
>
> Hello all,
>
>     I am having a problem running yum after doing the 4.6 upgrade.  I
> did a live update through yum and no problems were encountered. 
> However, now when I try to run yum (with any commands/options) I get
> this error right after loading/reading the repo's -
>
> eading repository metadata in from local files
> 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 102, in main
>     result, resultmsgs = do()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 489, in doCommands
>     ypl = self.returnPkgLists()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1085, in returnPkgLists
>     ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow)
>   File "__init__.py", line 993, in doPackageLists
>   File "packageSack.py", line 148, in searchNevra
>   File "packageSack.py", line 236, in _computeAggregateListResult
>   File "sqlitesack.py", line 514, in searchNevra
>   File "sqlitesack.py", line 403, in db2class
>   File
>
"/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py",
> line 97, in __getattr__
> AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE
>
>     Running "yum clean all" seems to work but the error does not
go away.
>
>     I know less than nothing about python so that doesn't help.  I
> also did a search through the list archives and on Google but couldn't
> come up with anything (OC, I may not have been asking the right
> questions).  The server has a bad optical drive so I can't boot into
> the rescue CD (yet, I've got a replacement coming).  Whenever it gets
> here I'll be updating to 5.1 but in the mean time there's some
> security fixes that have come down the pipe which I can't update to
> due to yum being petulant.
>
>     If anyone can shed some light on this or point me in the right
> direction to get this fixed it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Joe
>
Hello Joe,

I had exactly the same problem. I guess that the problem is the yum
version upgraded. To solve it I searched for an older yum version. I
found this one: yum-2.4.3-4.el4.centos.noarch. And at least it works.

Hope it helps

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