yum update fails

[Jon_Larson]

Plesk recently attempted to do an auto-update and it failed. I have not been able to get it to update since. When I connect using SSH, and try to do a manual yum update I get the following error:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Update Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
epel/metalink                                                                                                                            |  13 kB     00:00
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 294, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 146, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 438, in doCommands
    return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 232, in doCommand
    return base.updatePkgs(extcmds, update_to=(basecmd == 'update-to'))
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 725, in updatePkgs
    self.update()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 3782, in update
    updates = self.up.getUpdatesTuples()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 925, in <lambda>
    up = property(fget=lambda self: self._getUpdates(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 743, in _getUpdates
    self._up = rpmUtils.updates.Updates(self.rpmdb.simplePkgList(), self.pkgSack.simplePkgList())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 906, in <lambda>
    pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 686, in _getSacks
    self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 290, in populateSack
    self.doSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 105, in doSetup
    self.ayum.plugins.run('postreposetup')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 184, in run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 197, in postreposetup_hook
    if downgrade_ftp and _len_non_ftp(repo.urls) == 1:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 701, in <lambda>
    urls = property(fget=lambda self: self._geturls(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 698, in _geturls
    self._baseurlSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 644, in _baseurlSetup
    mirrorurls.extend(list(self.metalink_data.urls()))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 741, in <lambda>
    metalink_data = property(fget=lambda self: self._getMetalink(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 728, in _getMetalink
    self._metalink = metalink.MetaLinkRepoMD(result)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/metalink.py", line 186, in __init__
    root = xmlparse(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 1154, in cElementTree_xmlparse
    _cElementTree_import()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 1142, in _cElementTree_import
    from xml.etree import cElementTree
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/cElementTree.py", line 3, in <module>
    from _elementtree import *
  File "<string>", line 19, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ElementTree'

Any help resolving this would be fantastic.. thanks.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Jon_Larson,

to list possible yum problems, please use the command:

rpm -Va python\* yum\*​

Afterwards, please correct the listed depending rpm - issues, by re-installing them with the command:

rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps /var/cache/yum/*/packages/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME.rpm​

... and check again for issues afterwards with "rpm -Va python\* yum\*"



It could be a good idea to use in addition:

yum clean all
rpm --rebuilddb​

 

[Jon_Larson]

Hi Jon_Larson,

to list possible yum problems, please use the command:

rpm -Va python\* yum\*​

Afterwards, please correct the listed depending rpm - issues, by re-installing them with the command:

rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps /var/cache/yum/*/packages/YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME.rpm​

... and check again for issues afterwards with "rpm -Va python\* yum\*"



It could be a good idea to use in addition:

yum clean all
rpm --rebuilddb​

I resolved all of the dependencies it was missing, but am still getting the same error. When I run rpm -Va python\* yum \* I get:

.M.....T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/ConfigParser.pyc
S.5....T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/__future__.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/atexit.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/base64.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/codecs.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/collections.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/email/charset.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/email/message.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/fnmatch.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/functools.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/hashlib.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/keyword.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/posixpath.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/quopri.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/re.pyc
S.5....T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/site.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/sre_constants.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/ssl.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/stringprep.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/textwrap.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/traceback.pyc
.......T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/uu.pyc
S.5....T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
S.5....T.    /usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyc

Are these files missing or is there something I am supposed to do with them? I'm not sure what it is telling me.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Jon_Larson,

you could try to re-install yum and python ... and afterwards I would suggest

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/autoinstaller --select-product-id plesk --select-release-current --reinstall-patch --install-component base​

to finish your previous, unfinished Plesk update.