yum problem

[Paul Howarth]

Pushparaj Shetty wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> I have a problem with yum command. whenever i give yum command at
> root, i get the following fail message
> ---------------------------------------
> [root at macs_20_252 praj]# yum update
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
>    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig
>    self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 104,
> in doConfigSetup
>    self.getReposFromConfig()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 135,
> in getReposFromConfig
>    parser.read(files)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 225, in read
>    IncludingConfigParser.read(self,filename)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 126, in read
>    ConfigParser.read(self,filename)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
>    self._read(fp, filename)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
>    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
> ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
> file: ///etc/yum.repos.d/macromedia.repo, line: 1
> 'macromedia]\n'
> --------------------------------------
> The problem started when i tried to install mplayer. Now I cannot
> install any package, even from add/Remove software menu. Please help
> me to solve the problem.

Your repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/macromedia.repo appears to be mangled.

Paul.