yum not updating fc3t1 to fc3t2

Wood David DJWOOD1 at qinetiq.com
Thu Sep 30 15:59:52 UTC 2004


Already running this as su.  Tried using up2date instead, but got a
dependency conflict with the x11-base-fonts (as it's gone in fc3t2).
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:34 +0100, Wood David wrote:
> > I've been using yum for ages, but  failed to get yum 2.1.3 
> to update fc3t1
> > to fc3t2 because ...
> > 
> > $yum update
> ^^^^
> 
> 	Maybe you could try this again after "su -"?
> 
> HTH
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up Repo:  base
> > repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 
> 1.1 kB    00:00
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > base      : 
> ################################################## 2665/2665
> > Excluding Packages
> > Excluding Incompatible Archs
> > Finished
> > Excluding Packages from Fedora Core 2.90 - i386 - Base
> > Resolving Dependencies
> > a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm    100% |=========================| 
> 1.1 MB    00:02
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 139, in ?
> >     main(sys.argv[1:])
> >   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
> >     (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", 
> line 131, in
> > buildTransaction
> >     (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", 
> line 151, in
> > resolveDeps
> >     self.populateTs(test=1)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", 
> line 115, in
> > populateTs
> >     hdr = po.getHeader()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/packages.py", 
> line 272, in
> > getHeader
> >     hdr = hlist[0]
> > IndexError: list index out of range
> > 
> > My hopes that 2.1.4 would fix it have been dashed ...
> > 
> > $ yum update
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up Repo:  base
> > repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 
> 1.1 kB    00:00
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > base      : 
> ################################################## 2665/2665
> > Resolving Dependencies
> > a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm    100% |=========================| 
> 1.1 MB    00:01
> > Fedora/RPMS/a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Header is 
> not complete.
> > Error: failure: Fedora/RPMS/a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm from 
> base: [Errno 256] No
> > more mirrors to try.
> > 
> > Any ideas?  I completely deleted the /var/cache/yum 
> directory first to see
> > if that helped.

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