[WBEL-devel] [Fwd: Problems with Yum updates]

[Sean McAdam]

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Hi all:

I have setup two separate rsync mirrors of the whitebox repositories,
and run yum update on several servers using these repositories. About 2
days ago I started to get:

[***@ns1 root]# yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

on all my servers, some of which were using one repository, and the rest
using the the other. I verified that the rsync is working correctly on
both repositories (I delete some files and resynced). I also tried to
use other repositories and got the same error.

So I suspect that is a systemic problem. I am not a Python programmer,
so before I sink time into this I was going to ask if anyone else if
having the same problem.

Feel free to email me directly if you want: ***@fredcom.com

~Sean
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[Milan Keršláger]

Post by Sean McAdam
I have setup two separate rsync mirrors of the whitebox repositories,
and run yum update on several servers using these repositories. About 2
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

Please wait for resyncing with the master. As Morris told here, he
rebuilded yum repository at the master and the master does not have the
problem now (as I checked few minutes ago).

[William Hooper]

Post by Sean McAdam
on all my servers, some of which were using one repository, and the rest
using the the other. I verified that the rsync is working correctly on
both repositories (I delete some files and resynced). I also tried to
use other repositories and got the same error.
So I suspect that is a systemic problem. I am not a Python programmer,
so before I sink time into this I was going to ask if anyone else if
having the same problem.

For some reason the headers are getting corrupted. If you re-run yum-arch
on the tree your updates will work.

http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-March/000921.html
http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-March/000925.html