Updte virtualmin crashes with errors

Hi

Just tried the update and got a listfull of errors and a install failed at the end.

Here's what i got:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.liteserver.nl * updates: mirror.liteserver.nl * addons: mirror.liteserver.nl * extras: mirror.liteserver.nl Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies There are unfinished transactions remaining. You mightconsider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. --> Running transaction check ---> Package usermin.noarch 0:1.410-1 set to be updated 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 568, 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

.. installatie mislukte!

Edit: Never mind, a refresh of installable packages solved this one.

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Submitted by Joe on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 03:03 Pro Licensee

Looks like your yum is broken. Possibly memory problems on your system?

Try refreshing package information and trying again.

If that fails, try it from the command line:

yum clean all yum update usermin yum update webmin

If that fails, you can update usermin and webmin using the rpm directly. You can download the RPMs from Webmin.com and Usermin.com, and use "rpm -Uvh webmin-1.480-1.noarch.rpm usermin-1.410-1.noarch.rpm"

There's nothing we can do about yum being broken (and a traceback like this is indicative of a failure in yum; has little to do with the package in question, and nothing to do with Virtualmin).

You might also want to try running :

yum clean all

I saw an error like this once where the YUM cache contained some invalid data..