Richard England wrote:
Further data.... The yumex transcript shows the following when the
mirrors are activated:
. . .
8:35:58 : Setup Yum : Groups
18:35:58 : Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
18:36:05 : Failure getting
http://mirror.stanford.edu/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/comps-f8.xml:
18:36:05 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
18:36:05 : Trying other mirror.
18:36:11 : Failure getting
ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/comps-f8.xml:
18:36:33 : --> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
18:36:33 : Trying other mirror.
. . . . .
and a whole bunch of repeats...
I experienced the same identical problem this week.
Problem solved with "yum clean all"
If you use Yum Extender, you can do it at the click of a button.
Ivan
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