yumex not functioning on my f8 platform

[Ivan Virgili]

Richard England wrote:
> Further data....  The yumex transcript shows the following when the 
> mirrors are activated:
> 
> . . .
> 8:35:58 : Setup Yum : Groups
> 18:35:58 : Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> 18:36:05 : Failure getting 
> http://mirror.stanford.edu/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/comps-f8.xml: 
> 
> 18:36:05 :   --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> 18:36:05 : Trying other mirror.
> 18:36:11 : Failure getting 
> ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/comps-f8.xml: 
> 
> 18:36:33 :   --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> 18:36:33 : Trying other mirror.
> . . . . .
> and a whole bunch of repeats...
> 

I experienced the same identical problem this week.
Problem solved with "yum clean all"
If you use Yum Extender, you can do it at the click of a button.

Ivan

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