On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 01:22 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 01:00 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > 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. > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > AFAIK yum should _not_ run fine as a normal user. It has to modify > system files that a normal user cannot do. > > On my system yum *refuses* to run as a normal user and gives me a > message that I must be root to run yum. This has been the case with > both FC3 and FC4. > sorry, I should have said, "yum refuses to run as a normal user for many commands" I know that for some commands that are simple queries it will run as a normal user, but for anything requiring an update of the local data or an install/update it must be run as root. > > Benjamin > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
