Bug 117963

Summary: yum fails to start. reporting: iterable argument required
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: yuval aviel <yuval>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description yuval aviel 2004-03-10 14:51:27 UTC
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Description of problem:
Background: I installed fresh FC2-t1. I tried to update with up2date
and it didn't work (it never worked for me "out of the box", starting
from RH8!). So I moved to 'yum update'. This also doesn't work.

I downloaded the latest package: yum-2.0.5-1.noarch.rpm, and still the
same error report (see below). What am I doing wrong?

yuval.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.0.5-1.noarch.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.su
2.yum update
3.
    

Actual Results:  

lcnpc18:root # yum update
Unable to find pid
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 1.90 - i386 - Base
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 222, in main
    clientStuff.get_package_info_from_servers(serverlist, HeaderInfo)
  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 835, in
get_package_info_from_servers
    progress_obj=None)
  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 1224, in grab
    bandwidth, conf.retries, retrycodes, checkfunc)
  File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 237, in retrygrab
    progress_obj, throttle, bandwidth)
  File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 315, in urlgrab
    fo = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 129, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 491, in <lambda>
    lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 498, in proxy_open
    if '@' in host:
TypeError: iterable argument required
lcnpc18:root # 

Expected Results:  yum succesfully updated your system.

Comment 1 yuval aviel 2004-03-10 14:58:24 UTC
Oops, sorry - my mistake.
I had a wrong $http_proxy set. That lead to the error reported above.

Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2004-03-10 15:18:00 UTC
odd error nevertheless, I'll see if I can find a place to catch this
exception.

Thanks


Comment 3 Michael Stenner 2004-03-10 15:26:43 UTC
Yuval,  can you tell me what you had your proxy set to and what it
SHOULD be set to?  I don't need a real working proxy, but just the
nature of the difference.

It's normal to throw an error of the proxy setting is broken, but this
is clearly not an informative error :)  We should probably include
some format checking or at least better reporting.  I'd like to add
this to the test suite.  Thanks for the feedback.

Comment 4 yuval aviel 2004-03-20 19:44:41 UTC
Surely an informative error report would help.
The http_proxy was set to wwwproxy.huji.ac.il:8080, where is should
have been set to null (or simply undefined).

Hope this help.