On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > > '\xef\xbb\xbf[main]\n' The answer to this problem was posted 3 times. Did you read those replies? > 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] less doesn't display some special chars. Use 'vi'. You can do delete the line and manually add it.. Satish