On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 14:16 -0800, Norm wrote: > gary wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 22:30 -0800, Norm wrote: > > > >> I had to reinstall Core 6. Everything has gone well until I tried to > >> up date > >> At the command line if I try yum update I get the following error > >> ftp://ftp.safe.ca/pub/clement-2.1/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] > >> IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory. > >> Trying other mirror. > >> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: clement > >> From the gui if I use the "software updater" I receive this error in an > >> "unable to retrieve information box "Cannot open/read repomd.xml file > >> for repository: clement" > >> I have yum updater enabled but it does not return any indication of > >> updates after I reboot the system. > >> When I go to the ftp site I notice that there seems to be a missing > >> subdirectory in the address between clement-2.1 and repodata. the ftp > >> site indicates there should be a "fc6" subdirectory. The bottom is > >> there must be another way to do updates, what is it? > >> Norm > >> > >> > >> > > > > Google - check this = http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=139609 > > ----------gary > > > > > Thanks for the link, I think the problem may be solved. > When I reinstalled core 6 I decided to add a number of packages before I > did the update. One of the packages was clement. There was a reference > to clement causing the problem I had. I decided to uninstal clement. > did a yum clean all and rebooted. After the reboot it seemed to be > taking forever for the yum updater to do anything so I went to the > command line and gave yum upgrade a try. After a considerable period > the command line upgrade reported 147 packages to upgrade and the gnome > interface upgrade reported 113. I have gone with the command line > upgrade and am now waiting for it to complete its process of installing > 293 transaction. At this point it all appears to be working. I thought > I would give this method a try before I went to Kam's work around and > only as a last resort before another reinstall would I use Smart. The > last time I used Smart it destroyed my gnome setup and insisted that I > use KDE -I thought using Linux was to give me choices - it seems Smart > does not believe in choices. > Once things all up to-date and settled down I plan to try clement again > to see if the problem returns - I am not sure yet whether I should > describe the problem as a bug or just treat it as an incompatibility > between Yum and Clement. > Thanks for the help > Norm > Often times " yum clean all " will clear up any lingering problems, though be advised you'll have to download all your headers again. --------------gary
