On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:21 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > Hi > > I just did a fresh install of FC2 after having used FC1 for a number of > months. After the install I went to do a yum update having and receive > the errors below (completely unhelpful error messages). I have set my > http_proxy exactly as it has always been set. Any help would be welcome. > > Jonathan. > > Unable to find pid > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) ... > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 498, in proxy_open > if '@' in host: > TypeError: iterable argument required Try the old favorite "yum clean". phil