Internal system error

[dwatson]

Hey guys,
I just installed F9 and updated to F11 (fedora 11) and i updated the system because i couldn't get the media player working and then i installed all these packages for two days. I have tried yum clear cache and the rpm update and i tried things off of the forum like ten things and they didnt work if you guys could help!!!!!!! HERE are some of the ones i tried
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
yum update PackageKit
; yum clean all;

AND THIS IS THE ERROR
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
Error Value: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2280, in <module>
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 508, in dispatch_command
self.get_updates(filters)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1743, in get_updates
self._check_init()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1965, in _check_init
self.yumbase.repos.doSetup()
File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 71, in doSetup
self.ayum.plugins.run('postreposetup&apos
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 32, in postreposetup_hook
cmd = commands[0]

[Skunk Worx]

Have you done a 'rpm --rebuilddb' since you wiped the rpm database?

It's hard to tell from your explanation exactly what you have done and where you are. I think you installed f9 and are trying to get to f11 with no success. Another interpretation is you've installed both and yum is not working.

According to the project and google, they changed the yum file format making it "impossible" to upgrade from f9 to f11 directly. You were supposed to jump to f10 first :

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/instal...grade-x86.html

However it's not true. You can do it in most cases. See this BZ :

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506750

It's a matter of reading the bz report and looking at comment #2 carefully. It's a two stage process of :

1) upgrading f9 with a small set of packages (two) from f10
2) then one package from f11
3) then the final upgrade to f11.

Hope your important files are backed up...if things keep going sour you might have to do a full install to f11 directly.

If you make sure the correct fedora-release file and rpm version are installed, and follow the steps in the BZ report, you should be able to get there.

$ rpm -qa | grep fedora-release
fedora-release-11-1.noarch
fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch

$ rpm --version
RPM version 4.7.0

$ rpm -qa | grep "^rpm"
rpm-devel-4.7.0-2.fc11.x86_64
rpm-libs-4.7.0-2.fc11.x86_64
rpmdevtools-7.3-1.fc11.noarch
rpm-python-4.7.0-2.fc11.x86_64
rpm-4.7.0-2.fc11.x86_64
rpm-build-4.7.0-2.fc11.x86_64