Dear Friends, I have a problem with yum command. whenever i give yum command at root, i get the following fail message --------------------------------------- [root@macs_20_252 praj]# yum update Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 104, in doConfigSetup self.getReposFromConfig() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 135, in getReposFromConfig parser.read(files) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 225, in read IncludingConfigParser.read(self,filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 126, in read ConfigParser.read(self,filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read self._read(fp, filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line) ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers. file: ///etc/yum.repos.d/macromedia.repo, line: 1 'macromedia]\n' -------------------------------------- The problem started when i tried to install mplayer. Now I cannot install any package, even from add/Remove software menu. Please help me to solve the problem. Thank you Pushparaj