Am Mo, den 09.02.2004 schrieb amazing powers of observation um 09:52: > [root@x1-6-00-0a-e6-c7-6f-d8 mitch]# yum update > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 152, in main > (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args) > File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 71, in parseCmdArgs > conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile) > File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 48, in __init__ > self.cfg.read(configfile) > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/ConfigParser.py", line 233, in read > self.__read(fp, filename) > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/ConfigParser.py", line 444, in __read > raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, `line`) > ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section > headers. > file: /etc/yum.conf, line: 1 > 'This is a yum.conf for Fedora Core.\n' You could always get back a default configuration file which is part of an RPM following: 1) find out to which package the file belongs with i.e. rpm -qf /etc/yum.conf -> yum-2.0.5.-1 2) extract the desired file rpm2cpio yum-2.0.5.-1.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd /etc/yum.conf you may use "mc" too for extracting This is valid not only for yum. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl Sirendipity 14:28:21 up 17:11, 7 users, 1.32, 1.22, 1.12 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]