[rhn-users] Problems with RHN repository in RHEL Desktop v.5 x86_86

[Bruno Martins]

Yes, it really did solve the problem! Thanks for your help, mate.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:18 PM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Bruno Martins <bmomartins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good night mates,
>>
>> I'm currently unable to update or install any packages from my system
>> (RHEL Desktop v. 5 x86_64) because of this error:
>>
>> [user at machine ~]# yum check-update
>> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
>> rhel-x86_64-client-5                                     | 1.4 kB     00:00
>> rhel-x86_64-client-5/primary                             |   10 B     00:00
>> rhel-x86_64-client-5/primary                             |   10 B     00:00
>> rhel-x86_64-client-5/primary                             |   10 B     00:00
>> rhel-x86_64-client-5/primary                             |   10 B     00:00
>> Error: failed to retrieve
>> repodata/4d9b8fc1779a8bd59019ff7a315439c417ffd402-primary.xml.gz from
>> rhel-x86_64-client-5
>> error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>>
>> Have you guys ever faced this problem, and possibly know a solution?
>>
>> I've tried commands like...
>>
>> yum clean metadata
>> yum clean all
>> rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
>> rm -rf /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl
>>
>> ... but with no success, unfortunately.
>>
>> Thanks for your cooperation.
>
> Try disabling location aware updates in RHN and see if that clears it up?
>
> John
>
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