yum update output

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:22:18AM -0700, Karl R. Steenblik wrote:
> I am a Mandrake user who has choosen Fedora becuse of its open future.
> I have been learning a few new things about Linux and Fedora in paticular.
> 
> I how have my yum repositories configured and I think it is working.  I
> did have this print out when I finished my yum update.
> 
> >Finding updated packages
> >Downloading needed headers
> >Damaged Header 
> >/var/cache/yum/base/headers/kde-i18n-Czech-1-3.1.4-1.noarch.hdr
> >getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/kde-i18n-Czech-1-3.1.4-1.noarch.hdr
> >kde-i18n-Czech-1-3.1.4-1. 100% |=========================|  20 kB    00:00
> >Resolving dependencies
> >Dependencies resolved
> >I will do the following:
> >[update: perl-DateManip 5.42-0.fdr.2.a.1.noarch]
> >Is this ok [y/N]: y
> >Bad Header for pkg tetex-fonts.i386 trying to get headers for the 
> >nevral - exiti ng
> >[root at localhost karl]#
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me what this is saying in non tech speach?

That's "speech." :-)

In brief, it is letting you know what is going on. It found two
different bad header files (summaries of the contents of the eponymous
RPM package) on your hard drive. I'd check that hard drive for
problems FAST! Tom's Root Boot (http://www.toms.net/rb) and badblocks
are your friends.

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