File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30

Issue

Getting the following error when using any cli command:

[root@server]# yum clean all
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30
except KeyboardInterrupt, e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
[root@server]#

Environment

• Cloudlinux

Solution

[root@server]# sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python
[root@server]#
[root@server]# yum clean all
Complementos cargados:etckeeper, fastestmirror, rhnplugin, universal-hooks
Limpiando repositorios: cpanel-addons-production-feed cpanel-plugins MariaDB103 cl-ea4 cl7h cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-1 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-10 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-11 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-12 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-13 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-14 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-2 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-3
                      : cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-4 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-5 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-6 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-7 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-8 cloudlinux-ea4-rollout-9 cloudlinux-imunify360 cloudlinux-rollout-1 cloudlinux-rollout-10 cloudlinux-rollout-11 cloudlinux-rollout-12
                      : cloudlinux-rollout-13 cloudlinux-rollout-14 cloudlinux-rollout-2 cloudlinux-rollout-3 cloudlinux-rollout-4 cloudlinux-rollout-5 cloudlinux-rollout-6 cloudlinux-rollout-7 cloudlinux-rollout-8 cloudlinux-rollout-9 cloudlinux-x86_64-server-7 devtoolset-4 devtoolset-6
                      : devtoolset-7 devtoolset-8 devtoolset-9 go-toolset-1.11 go-toolset-1.12 go-toolset-7 imunify360 imunify360-rollout-1 imunify360-rollout-2 imunify360-rollout-3 imunify360-rollout-4 imunify360-rollout-5 imunify360-rollout-6 imunify360-rollout-7 imunify360-rollout-8
                      : llvm-toolset-10.0 llvm-toolset-7 rh-python36 rust-toolset-7 wp-toolkit-cpanel wp-toolkit-thirdparties
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
Other repos take up 151 M of disk space (use --verbose for details)
[root@server]#

Cause

You should have installed python3 as something like /usr/local/bin/python3.

Useful links

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11213520/yum-crashed-with-keyboard-interrupt-error