Hi John,
Usually the only thing that breaks yum is a change of python from under 
it, or some type of corruption.

Can you send the output of
   rpm -q yum
   rpm -V yum
   rpm -qa | grep python
   rpm -V python
   which python

If nothing looks suspicious, then we'll try a
   yum -d4 update yum

But since that has alot of output, we'll look at the shorter stuff first.

Troy

John Rowe wrote:
> Yum is failing for me fairly spectacularly and I'm not sure if the
> problem is yum or me. The error I get is:
> 
> # yum update yum
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repos
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 68, in main
>     result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 413, in doCommands
>     return self.updatePkgs()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 932, in updatePkgs
>     self.doRepoSetup()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 81, in doRepoSetup
>     repo.getRepoXML(text=repo)
>   File "repos.py", line 589, in getRepoXML
>   File "repos.py", line 566, in get
>   File "mirror.py", line 414, in urlgrab
>   File "mirror.py", line 400, in _mirror_try
>   File "grabber.py", line 619, in urlgrab
>   File "grabber.py", line 548, in _retry
>   File "grabber.py", line 605, in retryfunc
>   File "grabber.py", line 728, in __init__
>   File "grabber.py", line 795, in _do_open
>   File "grabber.py", line 886, in _make_request
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open
>     '_open', req)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain
>     result = func(*args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 980, in file_open
>     return self.open_local_file(req)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 1004, in open_local_file
>     if not host or \
> socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
> 
> My yum configuration is brand new since my old configuration suddenly
> vanished on all four of my machines (I hadn't expected that!). The only
> two files I have changed are:
> 
> # cat sl.repo
> [main]
> [sl-base]
> name=SL 4 base
> baseurl=file://nfs/SL/40/$basearch/SL/RPMS/
> enabled=1
> 
> # cat sl-errata.repo
> [main]
> [sl-errata]
> name=SL 4 base
> baseurl=file://nfs/SL/40/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
> enabled=1
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John


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