From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: yum will not update. It check the repositories and then dumps a traceback message Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum 2.1.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.type in yum check-update or 2.yum update 3. Actual Results: yum crashes Expected Results: I expect the repositories to be check and any updates to be either listed or installed Additional info: 10:25:20 root@/home/verbena $ yum check-update Setting up Repo: development repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Setting up Repo: jpackage15-generic repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 903 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: livna-stable repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: fedora-unstable repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 903 B 00:00 Setting up Repo: fedora-stable repodata/repomd.xml: <urlgrabber.grabber.CallbackObject instance at 0xf6a166cc> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 8, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 60, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 427, in doCommands ypl = self.returnPkgLists() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 953, in returnPkgLists ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 604, in doPackageLists self.doRepoSetup() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 69, in doRepoSetup repo.getRepoXML() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 459, in getRepoXML result = self.get(relative=remote, local=local, copy_local=1) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 437, in get checkfunc=checkfunc) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 414, in urlgrab return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 400, in _mirror_try return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs ) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 595, in urlgrab return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 542, in _retry cb_func(obj, *cb_args, **cb_kwargs) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 41, in failureReport raise msg urlgrabber.grabber.CallbackObject: <urlgrabber.grabber.CallbackObject instance at 0xf6a166cc> 10:29:21 root@/home/verbena $
*** Bug 136186 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If you try it again using different mirrors I think you'll find it works. However, it shouldn't traceback like that when it does failt. It should fail more gracefully. Thanks
This should be fixed in 2.1.10 -- http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/yum-2.1.10-1.noarch.rpm
Please reopen if this persists.