[K12OSN] Crazy Spam in my yum update

Carl Keil carl at snarlnet.com
Mon Feb 12 02:44:12 UTC 2007


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>Carl Keil wrote:
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>     Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this when I run 'yum
>     update'? Both my k12ltsp boxes are doing it. And what can/should I
>     do about it? Yum is wonderful, mysterious and terrifying to me.
>     What follows is approximately one quarter (hopefully
>     representative) of the output I get when I run 'yum update' from
>     the command line.
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> Looks like /var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml got corrupted somehow. 
> Have you tried running 'yum clean all' and trying again?
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>Nils Breunese.
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Yes, I should have mentioned that I did a 'yum clean all' before the 
'yum update'.  I still got the same thing afterwards.  The file 
/var/cache/yum/macromedia/repomd.xml is full of weird spammy nonsense.  
Is it safe to just delete that file?

ck




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