[K12OSN] This is my yum error

[Eric Harrison]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, David Trask wrote:

> Eric,
>
> This is an example of the type of errors I get.  I ran "yum clean all"
> and then tried to run "yum update"....this is what I got...
>
> [root at server ~]# yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> macromedia                                                           [1/6]
> macromedia                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> core                                                                 [2/6]
> core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> k12ltsp                                                              [3/6]
> k12ltsp                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                                                              [4/6]
> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
> webmin                                                               [5/6]
> webmin                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                                                               [6/6]
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> macromedia: #################################                  2/3Added 2
> new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.11 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 767 kB    00:09
> core      : ################################################## 2207/2207
> Added 2207 new packages, deleted 0 old in 13.21 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.2 MB    00:00
> k12ltsp   : ################################################## 3842/3842
> Added 3842 new packages, deleted 0 old in 26.86 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 386 kB    00:04
> updates   : ################################################## 1080/1080
> Added 1080 new packages, deleted 0 old in 8.55 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> webmin    : ################################################## 3/3
> Added 3 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.08 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.2 MB    00:00
> extras    : ################################################## 4205/4205
> Added 4205 new packages, deleted 0 old in 24.93 seconds
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for bind-config to pack into transaction set.
> bind-config-9.3.2-20.FC5. 100% |=========================|  35 kB    00:00
> ---> Package bind-config.i386 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for ltsp_i386 to pack into transaction set.
> ltsp_i386-4.2-2c.k12ltsp. 100% |=========================|  87 MB    10:02
> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/testing/5.0.0-32bit/i386/Fedora/RPMS/ltsp_i386-4.2-2c.k12ltsp.5.0.0.noarch.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: i386/Fedora/RPMS/ltsp_i386-4.2-2c.k12ltsp.5.0.0.noarch.rpm
> from k12ltsp: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
>
>
> See the error?  How can I get around this?  I've gotten it on "some" other
> packages, but not all.  Java would not install either...same error....I
> also had an issue with kdebase.  some things install fine though...like
> webmin...and tuxpaint.  I did the java stuff by hand.  Any ideas?


I'm guessing that the "bad headers" are cached in an upstream proxy server.

Try adding the following line to the "[main]" section of /etc/yum.conf:

 	http_caching=packages

then clear out your local cache & try again...

 	yum clean headers
 	yum update


-Eric