Bug 462036 - yum fails with syntax error
Summary: yum fails with syntax error
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 460963
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-12 05:23 UTC by jlbartos
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-09-12 12:03:59 UTC
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Description jlbartos 2008-09-12 05:23:11 UTC
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

Comment 1 jlbartos 2008-09-12 05:50:08 UTC
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.

Comment 2 jlbartos 2008-09-12 05:55:27 UTC
Additional checking. The culprit is yum-filter-data. Removed it and all is fine.

Comment 3 seth vidal 2008-09-12 12:03:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 460963 ***


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