yum hosed
Christoph Wickert
christoph.wickert at web.de
Tue Dec 23 12:59:33 UTC 2003
Am Di, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Todd A. Jacobs um 02:07:
> Yum is hosed. After checking out bugzilla, it looks like yum can get
> corrupted, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to rebuild the
> /var/cache/yum/* files needed to run yum properly. Clearing out the cache
> directory and running 'yum check-update' yields the following unhelpful
> traceback:
>
Is this the exact output? Maybe you have a typo in your config? Yum does
not like that at all...
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/base
> Getting header.info from server
> failover: baseURL = http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
^^^ Typo?
> failover: path = /headers/header.info
> headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/base/header.info
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
> File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
> File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>
> This is consistent with the Bugzilla stuff, for which there is no
> listed fix. How can I rebuild/restore yum?
Try running yum only with a few sources, e. g. only the original
yum.conf. If it still fails at least you know, that it's no
configuration issue.
Christoph
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