re yum troubles

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:

> > '\xef\xbb\xbf[main]\n'

The answer to this problem was posted 3 times. Did you read those
replies?

> It suggests that there is something wrong with te first characters in line 1in
> yum.conf, which should be only [main]. But this is not the case as you can
> see.
> $ less /etc/yum.conf
> > [main]

less doesn't display some special chars. Use 'vi'. You can do delete
the line and manually add it..

Satish