Failed to Update Package Lists

[lakegen]

I have downloaded, checked and installed Fedora 9 via i386 DVD iso.
The installation is on sdc, my third SATA drive, the other two running XP Pro. The boot is directly to sdc as specified in BIOS.
When I tried to update the installation I see the following error message:

Failed to get a TID: incorrect path with ';' returned

Searching documentation and the Forums etc has not produced anything

[Hlingler]

What command did you run that yielded this error?

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[lakegen]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

What command did you run that yielded this error?

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Using the GUI I saw the message after doing one of two things:

1 System>Administration> Update Software and saw 'getting updates' window before error message appeared

2 System>Administration> Add/remove software. In window clicked on one of the packages on list on left or used 'find' for Gramps before error message appeared

There were a number of attempts with the same result with reboots in between. Sometime after posting my question, #1 worked correctly and I saw the message for no updates but #2 still as before. This morning #2 worked and I did not get message and downloaded 'Gramps'.

Since then, the error message has not appeared. Why this happened I do not know as I believe I was doing the same as earlier attempts.

[mmv]

I have encountered the same problem: Just installed Fedora 9 from scratch (using a DVD burned with the official ISO image, itself downloaded from the Fedora web site), then tried to update the system using the System -> Administration -> Update system tool. The error message says "Getting update lists failed", "Failed to get updates", and under the 'More details', "failed to get a TID: Incorrect path with ';' returned!"

Help on what to do next to allow update will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Hlingler]

There was another thread with the same question recently, and an answer. Search the forum for the keywords: yum plugin

I think that it was the filelist (?) plugin that has a typo in one of the files in the new package that causes the failure. I now remember disabling this plugin.

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[lakegen]

mmv

I used the same DVD burned ISO image. As I said in my post above, the problem seemed to go away in stages without any apparent action (except rebooting) on my part. I hope the same is for you.

I did follow Hlingler's suggestion & searched for 'yum plugin'. This did not seem to yield much for me. I tried 'yum update' which seemed to give me some relevant posts. This caused my to try
'yum --disableplugin=protectbase update' Apparently this plugin had caused others similar problems.
I got the reply that 'protectbase' was not present.

Hence I hope the problem will resolve itself as mine appears to have done.

[mmv]

Hi lakegen,

First of all, many thanks to Hlinger for pointing out there had been another thread on this topic. It requires a bit of digging, but search for the thread entitled 'yum update problems SOLVED' started by nissan.bakish on 2008-09-16 at 07:33 AM PDT. BTW: Is there a simpler way to refer to a given thread on this site? Anyway, there are two essential contributions:

- the first thing to do is yum --disableplugin=protectbase update
- then you can issue the recommended sequence
su -
yum install wget
wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packag...ion.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm
rm -f fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum update

In my case, I did not need to rm the rpm package: it was not there or had been removed previously. I also did not get the http line or do anything about that. However, the last 3 lines appear to be very effective. Takes a while (especially the last action), but after that the system was able to get updated. In my case, the update required 366 packages, and with the dependencies and other stuff I had in the end over 700 files to download, but everything worked like a charm. I hope it does for you too...

mmv.

[myname77]

w00t, this seemed to work. Now to find out how to permanently disable protectbase

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by myname77

w00t, this seemed to work. Now to find out how to permanently disable protectbase

Edit (as root user) file /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/protectbase.conf and set enabled=0.

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[myname77]

w00t, this seemed to work. Now to find out how to permanently disable the protectbase plugin..

Thanx.

--k

[Hlingler]

Shall I repeat the answer, or was that just temporary dyslexia?

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[myname77]

WTF? Not sure why the double post. Damn, this work day has been WAY too long.

I'm out.

--k

[fedejofa]

Hi, i get this error too, and would like if posible to understand what this protectbase plugin does?
Is to protect the distro?
Greetings.

[Hlingler]

Originally Posted by fedejofa

Hi, i get this error too, and would like if posible to understand what this protectbase plugin does?
Is to protect the distro?
Greetings.

No. From the RPM description:

~]$ rpm -qi yum-protectbase
Name        : yum-protectbase              Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.1.17                            Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 1.fc8                         Build Date: Thu 18 Sep 2008 03:35:54 AM EDT
Install Date: Fri 10 Oct 2008 04:30:29 PM EDT      Build Host: ppc10.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: yum-utils-1.1.17-1.fc8.src.rpm
Size        : 2356                             License: GPLv2+
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed 08 Oct 2008 05:08:45 PM EDT, Key ID 62aec3dc6df2196f
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/yum-utils/
Summary     : Yum plugin to protect packages from certain repositories.
Description :
This plugin allows certain repositories to be protected. Packages in the
protected repositories can't be overridden by packages in non-protected
repositories even if the non-protected repo has a later version.

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