Hey guys. Quick one here. Been running my FreePBX server for a while now without too many dramas, but I figured it’s time for kernel and security updates. I’m currently running FreePBX 13.0.192.8.
However, when I logged in via SSH and ran “yum upgrade”, I receive the following error message after pressing “y” to upgrade, and the upgrade stops after that:
> Running Transaction
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py:762: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both ar guments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal
> if checksum == sql_checksum:
> 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 294, in user_main
> errcode = main(args)
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in main
> return_code = base.doTransaction()
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 586, in doTransaction
> resultobject = self.runTransaction(cb=cb)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1532, in runTransaction
> self.skipped_packages, rpmdb_problems, cmdline)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 942, in beg
> pid = self.pkg2pid(txmbr.po)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 799, in pkg2pid
> return self._ipkg2pid(po, create)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 793, in _ipkg2pid
> return self._pkgtup2pid(po.pkgtup, csum, create)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 776, in _pkgtup2pid
> checksum))
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/sqlutils.py", line 168, in executeSQLQmark
> return cursor.execute(query, params)
> sqlite3.ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.
Full pastebin is available here: https://pastebin.com/QK45XdUQ
Any suggestions on how get past this would be appreciated 