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  •  TheOnly92
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yum problem
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I had this problem for a long time, just didn't find the proper place to post it. I think here's it.

As far as I can remember, before this error occurred I updated Webmin to 1.480. Not sure if that's the problem though.

Now whenever I run yum, it shows these errors:

[root@theonly ~]# yum
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 4, in ?
import yum
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 49, in ?
import config
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 27, in ?
from parser import ConfigPreProcessor
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 3, in ?
import urlgrabber
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/__init__.py", line 53, in ?
from grabber import urlgrab, urlopen, urlread
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 406, in ?
import keepalive
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/keepalive.py", line 339, in ?
class HTTPSHandler(KeepAliveHandler, urllib2.HTTPSHandler):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'
[root@theonly ~]#

I don't know anything about python, so can anyone help me?
Posted on: 2009/7/5 7:15
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  •  WhatsHisName
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Re: yum problem
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The first thing to try is to cleanup yum (i.e., clean up old packages, headers, metadata & dbcache):

# yum --enablerepo=\* clean all
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  •  AlanBartlett
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Re: yum problem
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The first thing to try is to cleanup yum (i.e., clean up old packages, headers, metadata & dbcache):

# yum --enablerepo=\* clean all

There's just one small issue to be aware of when following WHN's advice -- the wild-card will also enable the c5-media repository. Hence I would advise --

yum --enablerepo=\* --disablerepo=c5-media clean all
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Posted on: 2009/7/5 14:28
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  •  WhatsHisName
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Re: yum problem
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The cleanup in post #2 has never caused me a problem, so why is it defective?
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Posted on: 2009/7/5 16:10
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  •  toracat
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Re: yum problem
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I can testify that yum complains if --disablerepo=c5-media is omitted in certain cases. I have not investigated yet as to in what cases that happens, but I saw it in the past and I had to add the said option to get the 'yum clean' to work.
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  •  TheOnly92
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Re: yum problem
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Nope, still no luck. It gives the same error. (exactly)
Posted on: 2009/7/6 8:21
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  •  glennzo
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Re: yum problem
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Try this: 
yum clean all
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb
Now see if yum wants to play nicely again.
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Posted on: 2009/7/6 10:43
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  •  pschaff
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Re: yum problem
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Not a hardware issue - moving the topic to General.

Seems like a possible problem with python. If the above suggestion does not help, please provide the results of:
rpm -qa yum python\*
rpm -V yum python python-urlgrabber python-elementtree python-iniparse python-sqlite
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Posted on: 2009/7/6 18:22
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  •  behzadfu
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Re: yum problem
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I had same error on centos
yum clean has simillar error at post #1
I had fixed this by reinstalling yum

rpm -e yum yum-fastestmirror
rpm -Uvh yum-3.2.19.1.rpm

yum-3.2.19.1.rpm can be downloaded from rpm.pbone.net
Posted on: 2009/7/7 7:28
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  •  TheOnly92
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Re: yum problem
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I tried every method suggested by everyone here, yum still doesn't cooperate :(

[root@theonly ~]# rpm -qa yum python\*
python-2.4.3-24.el5
python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5
python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5
yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos
python-elementtree-1.2.6-5
python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1

The next command, the output is here: http://paste2.org/p/308288

Reinstalling yum did helped me on another box (CentOS 4) but not on this unfortunately...
Posted on: 2009/7/7 8:24
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  •  pschaff
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Re: yum problem
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Your python packages are seriously corrupted. You will have to use rpm to force re-installation of yum dependencies. 
# rpm -q --requires yum
/usr/bin/python
config(yum) = 3.2.19-18.el5.centos
python >= 2.4
python(abi) = 2.4
python-elementtree
python-iniparse
python-sqlite
rpm >= 0:4.4.2
rpm-python
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
urlgrabber >= 3.1.0
yum-fastestmirror
yum-metadata-parser >= 1.1.0


I'd start by downloading the latest versions of all the following RPMs into a working directory: 
python python-urlgrabber python-elementtree python-iniparse python-sqlite

then
rpm -Uvh --force *
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Posted on: 2009/7/7 11:01
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  •  TheOnly92
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Re: yum problem
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Nope, did force reinstall the first time, still didn't work out, then removed those packages, and install, still doesn't work. I just wonder do I need to reboot server after the installation? It's a production server actually...
Posted on: 2009/7/8 9:28
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  •  pschaff
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Re: yum problem
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A reboot should not be required for packages like python and yum. Should only be needed for a new kernel or upgrade of core libraries such as glibc.

This does raise the question of how far behind you are. Please show:
rpm -q centos-release glibc kernel
uname -rmi
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Posted on: 2009/7/8 15:59
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  •  TheOnly92
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Re: yum problem
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[root@theonly ~]# rpm -q centos-release glibc kernel
centos-release-5-3.el5.centos.1
glibc-2.5-34
package kernel is not installed
[root@theonly ~]# uname -rmi
2.6.18-92.1.18.el5.028stab060.8ent i686 i386

Not too far behind, I believe? It's a VPS so I think it don't need the kernel package?
Posted on: 2009/7/9 9:15
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  •  pschaff
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Re: yum problem
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More info up front would avoid a lot of confusion. You are not really running CentOS at all:
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/OtherVoices
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenSpins
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Posted on: 2009/7/9 12:30
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  •  TheOnly92
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Re: yum problem
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So therefore, is there a solution to this problem? Or I will have to rebuild my VPS? Or I will have to consult my host?
Posted on: 2009/7/10 10:14
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  •  toracat
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Re: yum problem
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Quote:

TheOnly92 wrote:
So therefore, is there a solution to this problem? Or I will have to rebuild my VPS? Or I will have to consult my host?

You have to ask your hoster. Anything we advice here might actually break your system because it is not genuine CentOS.
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  •  TheOnly92
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Re: yum problem
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Doesn't matter, thanks for all the help you have provided :)

I might come back with questions to genuine CentOS next time.
Posted on: 2009/7/11 6:56
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