Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 102011
yum crash when cleaning
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:48:43 EST
Filed against distro, since there is no yum component in bugzilla I installed rawhide yum on a RHL 9 box, then used yum upgrade to upgrade that system to severn beta1. Once upgraded to severn beta1, I used yum update to upgrade to today's rawhide. Now, when I try to clean all the spooled files out from /var/cache/yum, I get the following: [cricker@yoshimi cricker]$ sudo yum clean Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 - i386 - Base Finding updated packages Cleaning packages and old headers Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 45, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "yummain.py", line 240, in main File "clientStuff.py", line 843, in take_action File "clientStuff.py", line 596, in clean_up_old_headers OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/base/headers/librsvg-devel-0-1.0.2-9.i386.hdr' [cricker@yoshimi cricker]$ Okay, is the file really missing? [cricker@yoshimi cricker]$ ls /var/cache/yum/base/headers/librsvg* /var/cache/yum/base/headers/librsvg2-0-2.2.3-3.i386.hdr /var/cache/yum/base/headers/librsvg2-devel-0-2.2.3-3.i386.hdr [cricker@yoshimi cricker]$ looks like a header yum is still expecting to be there from severn beta1, but which is gone b/c it was replaced by a newer header from rawhide Downloading updated headers doesn't help: [cricker@yoshimi cricker]$ sudo yum check-update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 - i386 - Base Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers [cricker@yoshimi cricker]$ sudo yum clean Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 - i386 - Base Finding updated packages Cleaning packages and old headers Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 45, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "yummain.py", line 240, in main File "clientStuff.py", line 843, in take_action File "clientStuff.py", line 596, in clean_up_old_headers OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/base/headers/rpmdb-redhat-0-9.0.93-0.20030718.i386.hdr' [cricker@yoshimi cricker]$ Obviously, I can delete everything under /var/cache/yum to clean up, but it looks like yum clean needs to be a little more robust here....
yum bugs are better reported at: https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/ Could you try the latest daily of yum and see if this is still affecting you?
https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73 Same bug - should have a catch for it for 2.0.1 - due out shortly. it's an attempt to delete a file that isn't there, I just need to catch the exception and move along. it doesn't really matter if the file isn't there on the clean.
one more note - I just realized what was going on and it's fairly stupid. I test to see if the rpm for the header is in the rpmdb - if it is then I delete the header. then I test to see if the header is no longer in the header.info file, if it is then I delete the header. Both of those can be true so it throws the error.
fixed in cvs - check that bug number from linux.duke.edu above. That has a patch.
Resolving this as NEXTRELEASE - which means of yum not of rhl :) y'all need a 'fixed' :)
I'm reopening this -- it's not fixed in RH, even if it is fixed upstream
it's fixed in fedora core test 2.