[SOLVED] gcloud sdk fails on yum update fresh centos7 running on GCE

Issue

If I create a google compute engine instance, selecting centos 7 as the image, ssh to the instance, and run yum update -y, I see the following error:

  Updating   : google-cloud-sdk-147.0.0-1.el7.noarch                                                         37/75 
ERROR: gcloud crashed (AttributeError): 'module' object has no attribute 'GetJobDirFlag'

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Compiling platform/gsutil/third_party/httplib2/python3/httplib2/__init__.py ...
  File "platform/gsutil/third_party/httplib2/python3/httplib2/__init__.py", line 347
    print('%s:' % h, end=' ', file=self._fp)
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

warning: %post(google-cloud-sdk-147.0.0-1.el7.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package google-cloud-sdk-147.0.0-1.el7.noarch

I have tried it a couple of times and it is 100% repeatable I would expect for anyone. Should I just ignore this error? If not, what steps should I take? I'm typically a fedora user however google cloud does not have a fedora image so I'm using CentOS as a total CentOS newbie.

Solution

I reproduced the problem and everything seems to work correctly after the update, it should be safe to just ignore the error.

Answered By - Basket Weaver

Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)