yum prob on lappy

[Andy Green]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 13:49, Gene Heskett wrote:

> mirroring failures, I now have a __.000db file that when I shut it down
> yesterday, was a zero length file and both yumex and smart package manager
> were spitting out terminal tummy aches over it.  An 'rpm --rebuilddb' also
> fails, as does an "rpm --initdb"

Just delete the /var/lib/rpm/__* files if you have trouble, there is no need 
to do --rebuilddb and definitely not --initdb!

The invalid baseurl thing is a network level yum error that is unrelated to 
the rpm __ file stuff.  What exactly is it saying about that?

-Andy