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Yum RHN auto-updates broken

Asked by Leif Neve

After installing some IUS packages a week ago, my yum automatic updates from RHN stopped working.
Here is a snippet from messages which points to the likely IUS update that caused the problem.
You see below that after adding two packages from IUS, there is an hourly error generated
which is presumably when yum is doing its hourly updates. I have the same problem on two different
servers:

Jul 26 16:34:42 ceb-stage-lx yum: Installed: yum-plugin-replace.noarch 0.1-1.el5
Jul 26 16:34:42 ceb-stage-lx yum: Updated: ius-release.noarch 1.0-5.ius.el5
Jul 26 17:34:33 ceb-stage-lx : error initializing: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_option'
Jul 26 18:34:33 ceb-stage-lx : error initializing: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_option'
Jul 26 19:34:33 ceb-stage-lx : error initializing: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_option'
[above line repeated every hour]
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Anyone else reporting this problem? Is there a workaround? Thanks.

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BJ Dierkes (derks) said : 		#1

On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Leif Neve wrote:

> New question #120106 on IUS Community Project:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ius/+question/120106
>
> Anyone else reporting this problem? Is there a workaround? Thanks.
>

Leif,

What version of Yum are you running?

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derks

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Leif Neve (lneve-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

[root@lhce-pl ~]# yum --version
3.2.22
  Installed: rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5.x86_64 at 2010-03-02 13:20
  Built : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> at 2009-07-24 05:58
  Committed: Panu Matilainen <email address hidden> at 2009-07-24 22:00

  Installed: yum-3.2.22-26.el5.noarch at 2010-04-21 12:36
  Built : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> at 2010-02-23 16:50
  Committed: James Antill <email address hidden> at 2010-02-23 22:00

  Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.x86_64 at 2010-03-02 13:19
  Built : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> at 2009-04-06 14:15
  Committed: James Antill <email address hidden> at 2009-04-06 22:00

  Installed: yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-15.el5.noarch at 2010-04-21 12:39
  Built : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> at 2009-12-21 11:59
  Committed: Milan Zazrivec <email address hidden> at 2009-12-21 22:00

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Alberto Laporte (arlaporte-gmail) said : 		#3

I'm not using the yum-updatesd service either but I can confirm I see the same behavior when enabling yum-updatesd:

Aug 5 20:26:43 web : error initializing: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_option'
Aug 5 20:29:12 web : error initializing: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_option'
Aug 5 20:31:29 web : error initializing: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'add_option'

Yum version: 3.2.22
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[root@web ~]# yum --version
3.2.22
  Installed: rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5.x86_64 at 2009-11-06 04:17
  Built : [] at 2009-09-04 00:25
  Committed: Panu Matilainen <email address hidden> at 2009-07-24 22:00

  Installed: yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch at 2010-08-06 01:51
  Built : [] at 2010-04-04 19:48
  Committed: Karanbir Singh <email address hidden> at 2010-04-04 22:00

  Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos.x86_64 at 2009-11-06 04:17
  Built : [] at 2009-08-27 16:19
  Committed: James Antill <email address hidden> at 2009-04-06 22:00
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RHEL Release: 5.5
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[root@web libexec]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

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BJ Dierkes (derks) said : 		#4

Can you please just confirm that this doesn't happen when yum-plugin-replace is disabled? You can disable it in:

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/replace.conf

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Leif Neve (lneve-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Errors go away and yum auto-updates are successful when it's disabled.

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BJ Dierkes (derks) said : 		#6

Please follow up with the bug report at LP #614391.

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