STILL Unable to use YUM to update

Clóvis Tristão clovis at agr.unicamp.br
Tue Oct 11 20:47:18 UTC 2005


Hi John,

Exist the yum.conf???
If OK
   Possible, corrupt the file
Bye,
Clóvis

>
>
>>
>>
>> On 10/10/05, John Moore <database1 at qualitycareforchildren.org> wrote:
>>
>>         10.10.2005
>>
>>         Last time I did yum (yum update), it updated the kernel to
>>         2.6.13.  Ever
>>         since, doing yum update I get this at the terminal:
>>
>>         [jmoore at localhost ~]$ yum update
>>         Config Error: Error accessing file for config
>>         file:///etc/yum.conf
>>
>>         I have checked out /etc/ (doing su -) and found that yum.conf
>>         looked
>>         like yum.conf~.  Thought that might be the problem so I
>>         renamed it back
>>         to yum.conf but I still get the same problem at the terminal.
>>
>>         Oh, and Yumex just flashes open but doesn't stay open.  That
>>         is, Yumex
>>         also doesn't work.
>>
>>         Any suggestions?
>>         John Moore
>>         Atlanta, GA
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>
> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 19:20 -0600, Spencer Kellis wrote:
>
>> I just had problems with yum myself... a few things I learned that
>> might help:
>>
>> clean up your yum data:
>> yum clean all
>>
>> clean up your rpm data:
>> rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
>> rpm --rebuilddb
>>
>> I think those are the basics... hopefully that does something!
>>
>> Spencer
>
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> 10.11.2005
>
> Hey Spencer.
>
> Tried the first command "yum clean all" and this is what I got (what I
> entered at the terminal)
>
> [jmoore at localhost ~]$ su -
> Password:
> [root at localhost ~]# yum clean all
> Config Error: Error accessing file for config file:///etc/yum.conf
> [root at localhost ~]#
>
> As you can see, I still got the same error.  Any suggestions?
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