I got online in a coffeeshop with wifi that needed web login. Somehow yum decided to fetch a mirrorlist file and cache it. The day after, trying to run yum gave me this: YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <HTML> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <HEAD> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <TITLE>WLAN - ERA</TITLE> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2"> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <LINK href="/styles/global.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - </HEAD> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <!-- YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <WISPAccessGatewayParam xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.erahotspot.pl/roaming/WISPR/WISPAccessGatewayParamSchema.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <Redirect> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <AccessProcedure>1.0</AccessProcedure> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <AccessLocation>12</AccessLocation> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <LocationName>ERA:PL</LocationName> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <LoginURL>https://www.erahotspot.pl/roaming/WISPR/logon/</LoginURL> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <AbortLoginURL>https://www.erahotspot.pl/roaming/WISPR/abort/</AbortLoginURL> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <MessageType>100</MessageType> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <ResponseCode>0</ResponseCode> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - </Redirect> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - </WISPAccessGatewayParam> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - --> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <BODY bottomMargin=0 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 rightMargin=0 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" onload="document.location.href='https://www.erahotspot.pl/pl/zalogowany.jsp'"> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - <CENTER> 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 241, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 116, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 307, in doCommands self._getTs() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 98, in _getTs self._getTsInfo() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 104, in _getTsInfo self._tsInfo.setDatabases(self.rpmdb, self.pkgSack) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 576, in <lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 419, in _getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 245, in populateSack sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 149, in populate if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 203, in _check_db_version return repo._check_db_version(mdtype) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 928, in _check_db_version repoXML = self.repoXML File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1086, in <lambda> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(), File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1078, in _getRepoXML self._loadRepoXML(text=self) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1068, in _loadRepoXML return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, ["primary"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1052, in _groupLoadRepoXML if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 904, in _commonLoadRepoXML result = self._getFileRepoXML(local, text) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 772, in _getFileRepoXML cache=self.http_caching == 'all') File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 643, in _getFile result = self.grab.urlgrab(relative, local, File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 463, in <lambda> grab = property(lambda self: self._getgrab()) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 458, in _getgrab self._setupGrab() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 447, in _setupGrab self._setupGrab() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 447, in _setupGrab self._grab = mgclass(self._grabfunc, self.urls, File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 548, in <lambda> urls = property(fget=lambda self: self._geturls(), File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 545, in _geturls self._baseurlSetup() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 514, in _baseurlSetup self.mirrorurls = self._replace_and_check_url(mirrorurls) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 536, in _replace_and_check_url print 'YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - %s' % (url) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/codecs.py", line 303, in write data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 78: ordinal not in range(128) Removing /var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt (that had that HTML in it) fixed it.
So I think this would have done the "right" thing if it wasn't for the encoding/decoding problem ... so if you can reproduce it, it'd be nice to see what type "url" is on line 536 (I think it's a unicode object, which is screwing everything up). If you can't reproduce it, then we can add some code which will probably fix it. Also "yum clean expire-cache" will remove all the mirrorlists (and not much else).
Tried to reproduce it by modifying mirrorlist, didn't help. Just protect it and hopefully will be fixed....
*** Bug 445779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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