A DIFFERENT yum/up2date problem...

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 18.01.2004 schrieb Allan Metts um 19:19: 
> Sorry to add yet another entry to what I know is a subject that's been 
> beaten to death...
> 
> I have a server that I've recently switched to a mirror for package 
> updates.  Both up2date and yum are reliably connecting to the package 
> repository -- yet no new packages are listed as available  (tried running 
> both "up2date -l" and "yum list updates").
> 
> I KNOW this isn't true -- the whole reason I switched to the mirror site is 
> because I couldn't successfully update from the redhat fedora site.  There 
> are about 30 new packages I haven't gotten yet.  I've tried several 
> different mirrors -- and oddly enough, the original redhat fedora site 
> gives me this same report now.
> 
> I've tried the "yum clean" commands, and I've blown away everything in 
> /var/spool that looks relevant.  I'm obviously overlooking something.
> 
> Please help!  I'm attaching yum.conf below.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Allan

[ snipped yum.conf ]

FIRST: Do not hijack foreign threads, please!

Does your rpm package db run ok? Do you get a valid response to "rpm -qa
| wc -l"? Maybe you face the rpm bug, which sometimes occur. You can fix
it running as root:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00? && rpm --rebuilddb

Alexander


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