[K12OSN] Crazy Spam in my yum update
Eric Harrison
eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Mon Feb 12 04:19:02 UTC 2007
Carl Keil wrote:
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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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>> <snip>
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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?
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> ck
Yes, you can remove everything under /var/cache/yum/macromedia (that is
what "yum clean all" should have done)
If you are running through a proxy, perhaps your proxy has a corrupted
copy. You can tell up-stream proxies not to cache the meta-data by
adding this line to the [main] section of /etc/yum.conf
http_caching packages
-Eric
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