Bug 495013

Summary: yum crash: NameError: global name 'base' is not defined
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu>
Component: yumAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
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Description Jeremy Huddleston 2009-04-09 04:11:19 UTC
I can't seem to install packages with the newly updated yum.

[jeremy@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install eclipse
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
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 219, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 711, in buildTransaction
    base.yumUtilsMsg(self.logger.critical, "yum-complete-transaction")
NameError: global name 'base' is not defined

[jeremy@localhost ~]$ yum --version
3.2.22
  Installed: rpm-4.7.0-0.beta1.9.fc11.ppc at 2009-04-06 01:10
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2009-04-03 07:52
  Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> at 2009-04-03 12:00

  Installed: yum-3.2.22-2.fc11.noarch at 2009-04-09 00:56
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2009-04-07 20:28
  Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2009-04-07 12:00

  Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-12.fc11.ppc at 2009-04-06 01:14
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2009-02-25 18:47
  Committed: Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng.org> at 2009-02-25 22:00

Comment 1 James Antill 2009-04-09 05:42:30 UTC
"""There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running
yum-complete-transaction first to finish them."""

 Use either yum-complete-transaction or yum-complete-transaction --clean.
 The above has been fixed upstream (change base to self, if you want to do it).