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 to upgrade to FC6, its currently FC5, but about 2 weeks out of date.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?
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try removing the # (commenting out) the baseurl
in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo

Craig




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