On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 21:54 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > Hi list, > Still having problems with yum. > When doing $ yum update> the following lines show up: > > > $ 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 163, in main > > (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args) > > File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 75, in parseCmdArgs > > conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile) > > File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 48, in __init__ > > self.cfg.read(configfile) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ConfigParser.py", line 263, in read > > self._read(fp, filename) > > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ConfigParser.py", line 456, in _read > > raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, `line`) > > ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers. > > file: /etc/yum.conf, line: 1 > > '\xef\xbb\xbf[main]\n' > > Then I am asked to "update the headers on my system". > > It suggests that there is something wrong with te first characters in > line 1in yum.conf, which should be only [main]. But this is not the case > as you can see. > $ less /etc/yum.conf > > > [main] Maybe less isn't showing the strange characters. What's the output of: od -c /etc/yum.conf | head Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
