CentOS - Nov 2011 - yum update fails / problem

Hi,

may be someone has an idea what's broken on one of our RH EL 6.1 server.
I tried all suggestions from the centosforum
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20237 but
without success.

Thanks for any suggestion . best Regards . G?tz


Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
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 274, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 129, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 432, in doCommands
    self._getTs(needTsRemove)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in
_getTs
    self._getTsInfo(remove_only)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 110,
in
_getTsInfo
    pkgSack = self.pkgSack
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 882,
in
<lambda>
    pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 668,
in
_getSacks
    self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 260, in
populateSack
    self.doSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 72, in
doSetup
    self.ayum.plugins.run('prereposetup')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 184, in
run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 121, in
prereposetup_hook
    str(e))
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateErrors.py", line 177, in
__repr__
    "The message was:\n") + self.errmsg
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
6:
ordinal not in range(128)



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On 11/18/11 1:10 AM, G?tz Reinicke wrote:
> may be someone has an idea what's broken on one of our RH EL 6.1
server.
if its a Red Hat 6.1 server, you should contact Red Hat technical 
support, you're paying for it.  Their version of yum is different than 
the one in CentOS as it is plugged into their proprietary Red Hat 
Network, with access rights and stuff.





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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:10:01AM +0100, G?tz Reinicke
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> may be someone has an idea what's broken on one of our RH EL 6.1
server.
#rhel or rhel6 mailing list at
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion . best Regards . G?tz
...
> __repr__
>     "The message was:\n") + self.errmsg
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in
position 6:
> ordinal not in range(128)
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4153 ?
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4025 ?

Tru
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