yum update – TypeError: unsubscriptable object

Odd error when running yum update on my slice. This appears to be a currently outstanding bug which can be worked around by issuing a

user@computer:$ yum clean metadata

user@computer:$ yum clean all

The former worked fine for me. Original error shown below.

user@computer:$ yum update
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
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 647, in buildTransaction
(rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 704, in resolveDeps
for po, dep in self._checkFileRequires():
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 939, in _checkFileRequires
if not self.tsInfo.getOldProvides(filename) and not self.tsInfo.getNewProvides(filename):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line 414, in getNewProvides
for pkg, hits in self.pkgSack.getProvides(name, flag, version).iteritems():
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 300, in getProvides
return self._computeAggregateDictResult("getProvides", name, flags, version)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 470, in _computeAggregateDictResult
sackResult = apply(method, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 861, in getProvides
return self._search("provides", name, flags, version)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in newFunc
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 837, in _search
for pkg in self.searchFiles(name, strict=True):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in newFunc
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 586, in searchFiles
self._sql_pkgKey2po(rep, cur, pkgs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 470, in _sql_pkgKey2po
pkg = self._packageByKey(repo, ob['pkgKey'])
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 413, in _packageByKey
po = self.pc(repo, cur.fetchone())
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 68, in __init__
self._read_db_obj(db_obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 94, in _read_db_obj
setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item]))
TypeError: unsubscriptable object

It’s possible that this is the error reported fixed here in RHEL. The version on CentOS doesn’t seem to have caught up yet.

user@computer:$ rpm -q yum-metadata-parser
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5

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Andamus

May 14, 2009 at 10:09 am · Reply

Thanks, it solved the problem also on a CentOs 5.2 64Bit

Royden Clark

May 14, 2009 at 4:53 pm · Reply

Thank you. Fixed my problem as well. Centos 5

Ovidiu H

May 14, 2009 at 9:19 pm · Reply

Thanks. Works for me. Same Centos 5 problem.

Mike Plummer

May 14, 2009 at 9:59 pm · Reply

Thanks, also fixed CentOS 5.3

Archeolog

May 17, 2009 at 8:58 am · Reply

Finally I found the answer,
thank you very much….

David Reynolds

May 18, 2009 at 2:18 pm · Reply

Just thought I’d add that it fixed yum on my centos 5 VM.

N_Cy

May 18, 2009 at 3:53 pm · Reply

Thank you for the post. It solved my problem. I really appreciate it.

john trammell

May 20, 2009 at 3:10 pm · Reply

Fantastic–fixed my yum problem running Centos 5.2 on VMWare!

Najem Hasan

May 25, 2009 at 12:47 pm · Reply

Worked on my trixbox – thanks!!

Richard Hagl

May 26, 2009 at 6:00 pm · Reply

All good again! Thanks for posting this.

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June 1, 2009 at 5:02 pm · Reply

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Joe

June 3, 2009 at 11:50 am · Reply

thanks! fixed a long-standing annoyance in my 5.2 vm

Konrad Zak

June 6, 2009 at 8:16 am · Reply

Thanks, cleaning metadata worked for me, regards.

rodents

June 12, 2009 at 4:16 am · Reply

you rock!

Xav

June 16, 2009 at 2:09 pm · Reply

Thanks man ! As with everyone else, you saved my day.

Ed Garrity

June 16, 2009 at 9:02 pm · Reply

Thank you very much. 1st one worked perfectly.

Michael Williamson

June 19, 2009 at 7:58 pm · Reply

Thanks, you are a lifesaver. I’ve kept this CentOS vm around (and updated) quite a long time and really didn’t want to re-build it from scratch. It’s my collection of database and VPN weirdisms connecting to Oracle, MySQL and SQl Server via FreeTDS. Whether or not VirtualBox works on my host O/S is all I have to worry about now

-Michael

Duncan MacMillan

June 23, 2009 at 7:52 am · Reply

Thanks, fixed my 64bit CentOS 5. Worked like a charm.

Buzz

July 1, 2009 at 11:40 am · Reply

Thanks for this, same issue on CentOS 5 x64

yum clean all

Solved the issue

Robert Grasso

July 3, 2009 at 10:27 am · Reply

Outstanding !

yum clean metadata fixed my issue on CentOS 5.3 x86_64

Thank you so much !

Brendan

July 7, 2009 at 4:17 am · Reply

Thank you, also fixed my issue.

Paul Theodoropoulos

July 14, 2009 at 7:38 pm · Reply

this is what i love about the web. hit an error. cut and paste the error into google. google’s first hit is to some kind soul’s blog where he posts the solution.

the system does work!

;^)

Erin Sheldon

July 17, 2009 at 9:37 pm · Reply

clean metadata worked for me, thank you!

Mariano

July 20, 2009 at 1:48 am · Reply

Thanks!

Vladimir Mikhelson

July 30, 2009 at 3:49 am · Reply

Thank you.

Fixed my problem updating Python on CentOS 5.3.

Used “yum clean metadata”

Stephen Reese

July 30, 2009 at 4:08 am · Reply

Thanks for the quick fix!

Karen

July 30, 2009 at 2:34 pm · Reply

Thanks! Fixed my CentOS 5.3 yum update error. I used: “yum clean metadata” and then the “yum update” worked!

Chris

July 31, 2009 at 6:56 am · Reply

Thanks! The problem is solved:)

Nick SD

August 1, 2009 at 4:58 pm · Reply

Thanks, Karen. Yum clean metadata did the trick !

FlipperK

August 3, 2009 at 12:22 pm · Reply

“yum clean metadata” and then “yum update” worked perfectly!

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Lee

August 4, 2009 at 2:33 pm · Reply

Thanks. Your advice was most usefull.

AlexP

August 5, 2009 at 2:31 pm · Reply

“yum clean metadata” did it for me as well on CentOS 5.3

Thanks for taking the time to post this!

Ben Johnson

August 5, 2009 at 9:59 pm · Reply

You Rock! This was killing me

Nick Lamb

August 6, 2009 at 3:15 pm · Reply

Hmmm, that fixed it. Google FTW I suppose, but I’d prefer a fix in the yum package itself.

Sato

August 17, 2009 at 7:02 pm · Reply

Thanks, it solved the problem also on Redhat AS 5.3 64Bit

css

August 18, 2009 at 6:49 am · Reply

THX

Deep

August 19, 2009 at 3:55 pm · Reply

Thank you for the hint, was wondering couldn’t update my centos. Now it works fine. THX a lot.

Gavin

August 27, 2009 at 5:49 pm · Reply

Solved my problem too. Love seeing the Atahualpa theme in use. what mods did you make for the code sections?

Rowan

September 3, 2009 at 7:09 pm · Reply

Thanks, did try knocking something together with Thematic first but didn’t quite have the time to come up with something visually pleasing. The syntax highlighter is a plugin http://blog.rowancrane.com/2009/05/13/terminal-syntax-highligher-plugin