yum prob on lappy
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Oct 31 14:21:47 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Over the weekend I tried to drag out my lappy and update it, getting ready
> to upgrade to FC6, its currently FC5, but about 2 weeks out of date.
>
> To make a long story shorter, what with editing the repo addresses, putting
> fedoraproject.org in where downloads-redhat.com was due to the repo or
> 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"
>
> Humm, now this morning, its back to complaining about an "invalid baseurl
> for core".
>
> As that _000.db file seems to be missing now, and its not bitching about it
> ATM, whats the next step here?, I've been out of the loop since last
> wednesday, out on the road. So if its been posted, whats the subject
> line?
----
try removing the # (commenting out) the baseurl
in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo
Craig
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list