internal error from PackageKit — packagekit Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>

2009-11-25 1 min read Fedora

If you get the below error then there is a bug files <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476352" target="_blank">here.

Error Type:
Error Value: &#8217;NoneType&#8217; object is unsubscriptable
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2280, in

main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2277, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 600, in
dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 526, in
dispatch_command
self.refresh_cache()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1130, in
refresh_cache
self.yumbase.repos.populateSack(which=[repo.id], mdtype=&#8217;metadata&#8217;,
cacheonly=1)
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 223, in
populateSack
self.doSetup()
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 71, in doSetup
self.ayum.plugins.run(&#8217;postreposetup&#8217;)
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py, line 178, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File : /usr/lib/yum-plugins/rpm-warm-cache.py, line 31, in postreposetup_hook
if commands[0] in (&#8217;upgrade&#8217;, &#8217;install&#8217;, &#8217;remove&#8217;):

And the solution is simply to remove:

yum-rpm-warm-cache with command:

yum remove yum-rpm-warm-cache

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