YUM errors on Fedora
Another Linux related post, this time about errors when trying to use yum to update or install some packets on Fedora 9. The error I encountered is [Errno -3] Error performing checksum when trying to get primary.sqlite.bz2, eventually ending with an ugly Python error AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'cursor' .
In the etc/yum.repo.d folder there are some files with the .repo extension. Each one contains some modules that can be enabled=0/1. Those modules are used by yum to download and update files. Yes, you will see yum failing and "trying another mirror", which means another server, but not another module! Therein lies the problem. I had a repo enabled that was not for Fedora 9, but for Fedora 14 aka Rawhide. The checksum was obviously failing.
The solution is to enable only the fedora repos, and disable everything else. Eventually, start enabling and disabling different modules and see what works and what doesn't.
My problems were not over. After running yum update I was getting Missing Dependency errors. Analyse each one and see what you can do. In my case, the subversion packet wanted a libneon.so.25 file. The problem was not in the neon file, but in the fact that the subversion packet that threw the error looked something like subversion-1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf.x86. Notice the el5 portion which identifies the packet for CentOS, not Fedora 9. It's the wrong packet.
Use rpm -qa | grep el5 to get all the packets that are wrongfully installed for el5, then use yum erase <packet name> to remove it. Now the update and yum should work fine.
Sometimes the errors lie in corrupted caches. You have two additional commands that might help, although in my case I don't know if they had any effect:
yum clean dbcache
rpm -rebuilddb
Hopefully this will clear things up for other Fedora noobs :)
In the etc/yum.repo.d folder there are some files with the .repo extension. Each one contains some modules that can be enabled=0/1. Those modules are used by yum to download and update files. Yes, you will see yum failing and "trying another mirror", which means another server, but not another module! Therein lies the problem. I had a repo enabled that was not for Fedora 9, but for Fedora 14 aka Rawhide. The checksum was obviously failing.
The solution is to enable only the fedora repos, and disable everything else. Eventually, start enabling and disabling different modules and see what works and what doesn't.
My problems were not over. After running yum update I was getting Missing Dependency errors. Analyse each one and see what you can do. In my case, the subversion packet wanted a libneon.so.25 file. The problem was not in the neon file, but in the fact that the subversion packet that threw the error looked something like subversion-1.6.6-0.1.el5.rf.x86. Notice the el5 portion which identifies the packet for CentOS, not Fedora 9. It's the wrong packet.
Use rpm -qa | grep el5 to get all the packets that are wrongfully installed for el5, then use yum erase <packet name> to remove it. Now the update and yum should work fine.
Sometimes the errors lie in corrupted caches. You have two additional commands that might help, although in my case I don't know if they had any effect:
yum clean dbcache
rpm -rebuilddb
Hopefully this will clear things up for other Fedora noobs :)
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