On Tuesday 31 October 2006 13:49, Gene Heskett wrote: > mirroring failures, I now have a __.000db file that when I shut it down > yesterday, was a zero length file and both yumex and smart package manager > were spitting out terminal tummy aches over it. An 'rpm --rebuilddb' also > fails, as does an "rpm --initdb" Just delete the /var/lib/rpm/__* files if you have trouble, there is no need to do --rebuilddb and definitely not --initdb! The invalid baseurl thing is a network level yum error that is unrelated to the rpm __ file stuff. What exactly is it saying about that? -Andy
