yum update fails with error "need more than 1 value to unpack"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After updating the yum-rhn-plugin package, yum update fails with an error: 
    [root@localhost ~]# yum -y update yum-rhn-plugin
...
Running Transaction
  Updating   : yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-26.el6_1.1.noarch                        1/2
  Cleanup    : yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-18.el6.noarch                            2/2

Updated:
  yum-rhn-plugin.noarch 0:0.9.1-26.el6_1.1

Complete!

[root@localhost ~]# yum -y update
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
Options Error: need more than 1 value to unpack

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-18.el6.noarch updated to yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-26.el6_1.1.noarch

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