Am Di, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Todd A. Jacobs um 02:07: > Yum is hosed. After checking out bugzilla, it looks like yum can get > corrupted, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to rebuild the > /var/cache/yum/* files needed to run yum properly. Clearing out the cache > directory and running 'yum check-update' yields the following unhelpful > traceback: > Is this the exact output? Maybe you have a typo in your config? Yum does not like that at all... > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base > CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/base > Getting header.info from server > failover: baseURL = http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1 ^^^ Typo? > failover: path = /headers/header.info > headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/base/header.info > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "yummain.py", line 188, in main > File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers > File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad > ValueError: unpack list of wrong size > > This is consistent with the Bugzilla stuff, for which there is no > listed fix. How can I rebuild/restore yum? Try running yum only with a few sources, e. g. only the original yum.conf. If it still fails at least you know, that it's no configuration issue. Christoph
