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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Yum update error Post 303025556 by feroccimx on Monday 5th of November 2018 12:07:33 PM
Old 11-05-2018
After doing one by one package update, I isolate issue to
Code:
cups-libs

Code:
# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, universal-hooks
Setting up Update Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * cpanel-addons-production-feed: 204.10.37.146
 * base: mirrors.oit.uci.edu
 * extras: centos-distro.1gservers.com
 * updates: centos-distro.1gservers.com
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cups-libs.x86_64 1:1.4.2-78.el6_9 will be updated
---> Package cups-libs.x86_64 1:1.4.2-79.el6 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                  Arch                                  Version                                       Repository                           Size
========================================================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 cups-libs                                x86_64                                1:1.4.2-79.el6                                base                                323 k

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade       1 Package(s)

Total size: 323 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py:763: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
  if checksum == sql_checksum:
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 298, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 227, in main
    return_code = base.doTransaction()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 588, in doTransaction
    resultobject = self.runTransaction(cb=cb)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1537, in runTransaction
    self.skipped_packages, rpmdb_problems, cmdline)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 943, in beg
    pid   = self.pkg2pid(txmbr.po)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 800, in pkg2pid
    return self._ipkg2pid(po, create)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 794, in _ipkg2pid
    return self._pkgtup2pid(po.pkgtup, csum, create)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 777, in _pkgtup2pid
    checksum))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/sqlutils.py", line 168, in executeSQLQmark
    return cursor.execute(query, params)
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.

I think my system could live without it.

Thank you Neo!
 

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yum-updatesd.conf

yum-updatesd.conf(5)					  yum-updatesd configuration file				      yum-updatesd.conf(5)

NAME

       yum-updatesd.conf - Configuration file for yum-updatesd(8).

DESCRIPTION

       yum-updatesd uses a configuration file at /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf.

       Additional configuration information is read from the main yum.conf (5) configuration file.

PARAMETERS

       There is one section in the yum-updatesd configuration file, main, which defines all of the global configuration options.

[main] OPTIONS
       The [main] section must exist for yum-updatesd to do anything. It consists of the following options:

       run_interval
	      Number of seconds to wait between checks for available updates.

       updaterefresh
	      Minimum number of seconds between update information refreshes to avoid hitting the server too often.

       emit_via
	      List of ways to emit update notification.  Valid values are `email', `dbus' and `syslog'.

       do_update
	      Boolean option to decide whether or not updates should be automatically applied.	Defaults to False.

       do_download_deps
	      Boolean option to decide whether or not updates should be automatically downloaded.  Defaults to False.

       do_download_deps
	      Boolean option to automatically download dependencies of packages which need updating as well.  Defaults to False.

MAIL OPTIONS

       email_to
	      List of email addresses to send update notification to.  Defaults to `root@localhost'.

       email_from
	      Email address for update notifications to be from.  Defaults to `yum-updatesd@localhost'.

SYSLOG OPTIONS

       syslog_facility
	      What syslog facility should be used.  Defaults to `DAEMON'.

       syslog_level
	      Level of syslog messages.  Defaults to `WARN'.

FILES

       /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf

SEE ALSO

       yum-updatesd(8) yum.conf(5)

Jeremy Katz														      yum-updatesd.conf(5)
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