Hi,
What version of yum are you currently using? Can you send that to me?
Also, can you send me the output of
rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort
And, I have a new version of yum for SL5 comming out today. I haven't
pushed it out yet, but you could try it.
yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update yum
Troy
Takashi Ichihara wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for your suggestion. I have updated each modules by yum
> many times and finally the kernel and kernel modules remained. The
> yum-update of kernel and kernel modules seems to case this problem.
>
> Experimentally, I have erased the kernel 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 and related
> modules by hand (rpm -el) and after that, the yum update worked.
> I do not understand why this solved. But anyway, the problem was
> solved.
>
> Regards,
> Takashi Ichihara
>
> [root]#yum update
> :
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> ======================================================================================================================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository Size
> ======================================================================================================================================================
> Installing:
> kernel x86_64 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 sl-security 17 M
> kernel-devel x86_64 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 sl-security 5.1 M
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 x86_64 5:2.6.3-1.sl5 sl-security
> 212 k
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 x86_64 1.2.0-2.sl5 sl-security
> 332 k
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 x86_64 1.4.7-68.2.SL5
> sl-security 285 k
> Removing:
> kernel x86_64 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 installed 83 M
> kernel-devel x86_64 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 installed 16 M
> Removing for dependencies:
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 x86_64 1.4.7-68.2.SL5 installed
> 1.0 M
>
> Transaction Summary
> ======================================================================================================================================================
> Install 5 Package(s)
> Update 0 Package(s)
> Remove 3 Package(s)
>
> Total download size: 25 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/5): kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5-2.6.3-1.sl5.x86_64.rpm |
> 212 kB 00:00
> (2/5):
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5-1.4.7-68.2.SL5.x86_64.rpm |
> 285 kB 00:00
> (3/5): kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64.rpm
> | 332 kB 00:00
> (4/5): kernel-devel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm | 5.1 MB 00:00
> (5/5): kernel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64.rpm | 17 MB 00:00
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Total 15 MB/s | 23 MB 00:01
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
> 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 181, in main
> return_code = base.doTransaction()
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 405, in doTransaction
> msgs = self._run_rpm_check_debug()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 3193, in
> _run_rpm_check_debug
> self.populateTs(test=1)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 261, in
> populateTs
> self.ts.addErase(txmbr.po.idx)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1046, in
> __getattr__
> return self.hdr[thing]
> KeyError: 'unknown header tag'
>
> [root]# rpm -el kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-2.6.3-1.sl5.x86_64
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64 kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-1.2.0-2.sl5.x86_64
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-1.4.7-68.2.SL5.x86_64
>
> [root]# yum update
> :
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> ======================================================================================================================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository Size
> ======================================================================================================================================================
> Installing:
> kernel x86_64 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 sl-security 17 M
> kernel-devel x86_64 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 sl-security 5.1 M
> kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 x86_64 5:2.6.3-1.sl5 sl-security
> 212 k
> kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 x86_64 1.2.0-2.sl5 sl-security
> 332 k
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 x86_64 1.4.7-68.2.SL5
> sl-security 285 k
>
> Transaction Summary
> ======================================================================================================================================================
> Install 5 Package(s)
> Update 0 Package(s)
> Remove 0 Package(s)
>
> Total size: 22 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
> Installing : kernel [1/5]
> WARNING: No module mptscsi found for kernel 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5,
> continuing anyway
> WARNING: No module qla2300 found for kernel 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5,
> continuing anyway
> Installing : kernel-devel [2/5]
> Installing : kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 [3/5]
> Installing : kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 [4/5]
> Installing : kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 [5/5]
>
> Installed: kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 kernel-devel.x86_64
> 0:2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 kernel-module-fuse-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64
> 5:2.6.3-1.sl5 kernel-module-ipw3945-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64
> 0:1.2.0-2.sl5 kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.x86_64
> 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL5
> Complete!
> [root]# reboot
>
> [root]# uname -a
> Linux abc.riken.jp 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jun 16 18:47:37 EDT
> 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root@]#
>
>
>
>
>
> Troy Dawson wrote
>> Sounds like your yum is corrupted, or you replaced your python.
>> rpm -qa | grep yum | sort
>> rpm -V yum
>>
>> Troy
>>
>> Takashi Ichihara wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Recently, yum on SL5.3 (X86_64)
>>> # uname -a
>>> Linux abc.riken.jp 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 7 12:48:13 EDT
>>> 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> yum update fails with KeyError: 'unknown header tag'.
>>> Done anyone know how to solve this problem ?
>>>
>>> Thank you for the information.
>>>
>>> Takashi Ichihara
>>>
>>> # yum update
>>>
>>> :
>>> Transaction Summary
>>> ================================================================================
>>> Install 5 Package(s)
>>> Update 46 Package(s)
>>> Remove 3 Package(s)
>>>
>>> Total size: 180 M
>>> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>>> Downloading Packages:
>>> Running rpm_check_debug
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>>> 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 181, in main
>>> return_code = base.doTransaction()
>>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 405, in doTransaction
>>> msgs = self._run_rpm_check_debug()
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 3193, in
>>> _run_rpm_check_debug
>>> self.populateTs(test=1)
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 261, in
>>> populateTs
>>> self.ts.addErase(txmbr.po.idx)
>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 1046, in
>>> __getattr__
>>> return self.hdr[thing]
>>> KeyError: 'unknown header tag'
>>> #
>>>
>>
>>
>
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