On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:26, Andy Green wrote: >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 In a seperate window: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Several of my files in /etc/yum.repos.d have been edited, and paths are probably AFU, it might be best to just replace the default file so I know they're good again, but there doesn't seem to be a net accessable set of these files available that google can find. The yum rpm is empty in that part of the tree. Bummer... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.