Fedora Users — Re: Yum error message -- New twist

Tony Nelson wrote:

At 4:14 PM -0500 7/3/05, Benjamin Sher wrote:

Dear friends:

I would appreciate your help with this yum issue. I can't use yum, and I
don't have any idea what the problem is. Yesterday, I posted a message
with the error message generated by the "yum list available |more"
command. Now I am getting a new error message. Below is the new error
message and at the bottom is yesterday's error message.

[sher@localhost ~]$ yum list available |more
Error: Caching enabled but no local cache of
//var/cache/yum/sl-errata/primary.xml.gz from sl-errata
Setting up Repos
Reading repository metadata in from local files
[sher@localhost ~]$


FWIW, when I get yum errors like this I run yum as root so it can fix its
cache.
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Dear Tony:

That's right on target! That's what resolved this isseu (see my subsequent "Solved" message). I didn't know why it fixed itself, but now I know why. I ran it as root once or twice and suddenly it was working fine. I then ran it as user and it worked fine as user.

Thanks for this little piece of critical knowledge.

Benjamin