Description of problem: For any incantation of yum, yum fails with: SyntaxError: invalid syntax Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.19-3.fc9.noarch with all yum plugins installed python-2.5.1-26.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Every time for any incantation Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum <anything> 2. 3. Actual results: yum fails with Traceback Expected results: yum to exit cleanly Additional info: 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 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 189, in _getConfig startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins,enabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 355, in doPluginSetup plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins, enabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 152, in __init__ self._importplugins(types) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 195, in _importplugins self._loadplugin(modulefile, types) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 251, in _loadplugin module = imp.load_module(modname, fp, pathname, description) File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/filter-data.py", line 111 ('committers', 'committer')] ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Solved it. Downgraded to yum-3.2.14-10.fc9.noarch and had yum update itself. I had updated yum using smart, which shouldn't have been a problem but was.
Additional checking. The culprit is yum-filter-data. Removed it and all is fine.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 460963 ***