Hello,
Thanks for reporting this, especially with a solution.
We'll work on getting this fixed.
Thanks
Troy
Yannick Perret wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I got some troubles with 'yum' on SL5x 64bit. In some cases (seems to
> depend of the order of packages) yum fail to install kernel with a crash
> message:
> # yum install kernel
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kernel-module
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.18-164.el5 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
> 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 145, in main
> (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 649, in
> buildTransaction
> self.plugins.run('postresolve', rescode=rescode, restring=restring)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 176, in run
> func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
> File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/kernel-module.py", line 253, in
> postresolve_hook
> removekernels = remove_kernels(conduit)
> File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/kernel-module.py", line 115, in remove_kernels
> if txmbr.name in KERNELS and txmbr.ts_state in ('e'):
> TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand
>
> The problem seems to come from /usr/lib/yum-plugins/kernel-module.py.
> Just changing the ('e') for ('e',) at line 115 solved the problem.
> Of course we do activate that plugin in our configuration, but the
> problem seems to occur or not depending of when the kernel package is
> installed (upgraded).
>
> Here is the exact package/version:
> # rpm -qf /usr/lib/yum-plugins/kernel-module.py
> yum-3.2.19-25.sl.noarch
>
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Yannick Perret
> CC-IN2P3
>
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