Description of problem:
I had lost contents of /var/lib/yum/history/* and issue, and the first "yum history new" makes ABRT catch the traceback, whereas subsequent "yum history new" don't crash anymore.

Version-Release number of selected component:
yum-3.4.3-60.fc19

Additional info:
cmdline:        /usr/bin/python /bin/yum history new
executable:     /bin/yum
kernel:         3.8.0-0.rc7.git3.1.fc19.x86_64
uid:            0

Truncated backtrace:
history.py:1656:_create_db_file:OperationalError: table trans_beg already exists

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 316, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 126, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 520, in doCommands
    return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 2974, in doCommand
    ret = self._hcmd_new(base, extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 2873, in _hcmd_new
    base.history._create_db_file()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 1656, in _create_db_file
    cur.execute(op)
OperationalError: table trans_beg already exists

Local variables in innermost frame:
cur: <sqlite3.Cursor object at 0x24c31f0>
ops: [' CREATE TABLE trans_beg (\n     tid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,\n     timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL, rpmdb_version TEXT NOT NULL,\n     loginuid INTEGER);\n', ' CREATE TABLE trans_end (\n     tid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES trans_beg,\n     timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL, rpmdb_version TEXT NOT NULL,\n     return_code INTEGER NOT NULL);\n', ' CREATE TABLE trans_with_pkgs (\n     tid INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES trans_beg,\n     pkgtupid INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES pkgtups);\n', ' CREATE TABLE trans_error (\n     mid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,\n     tid INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES trans_beg,\n     msg TEXT NOT NULL);\n', ' CREATE TABLE trans_script_stdout (\n     lid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,\n     tid INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES trans_beg,\n     line TEXT NOT NULL);\n', ' CREATE TABLE trans_data_pkgs (\n     tid INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES trans_beg,\n     pkgtupid INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES pkgtups,\n     done BOOL NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE, state TEXT NOT NULL);\n', ' CREATE TABLE pkgtups (\n     pkgtupid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,     name TEXT NOT NULL, arch TEXT NOT NULL,\n     epoch TEXT NOT NULL, version TEXT NOT NULL, release TEXT NOT NULL,\n     checksum TEXT);\n', ' CREATE INDEX i_pkgtup_naevr ON pkgtups (name, arch, epoch, version, release);\n']
self: <yum.history.YumHistory instance at 0x23afe18>
_db_file: '//var/lib/yum/history/history-2013-02-20.sqlite'
op: ' CREATE TABLE trans_beg (\n     tid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,\n     timestamp INTEGER NOT NULL, rpmdb_version TEXT NOT NULL,\n     loginuid INTEGER);\n'
fo: 8