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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 115, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 229, in getOptionsConfig
self.conf
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 911, in <lambda>
conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 300, in _getConfig
startupconf = config.readStartupConfig(fn, root)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 896, in readStartupConfig
startupconf.releasever = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 1047, in _getsysver
hdr = idx.next()
StopIteration
I've tried:
Just rebooting.
rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db* followed by rpm --rebuilddb
yum update yum
All to no effect. I saw some suggestions about uninstalling & reinstalling python, but I don't know how to do that without yum and yum is borked...
Systenm is: 2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 17:51:45 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux, i.e. a pretty recent 6.9
python --version Python 2.6.6
python3 --version Python 3.4.3
Any ideas, short of a clean reinstall