On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 19:00 +0200, Melanie wrote: > Am Samstag, den 10.04.2010, 08:52 -0700 schrieb Craig White: > I also get back to the original configurations. > > In the meantime I updated yum to 3.2.27-2 - With the new yum version the > above mentioned error didn´t occur again. But I got a lot of http 416 > errors. So I googled again and found this site: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yum-3.2.27-3.fc12 > I updated to yum 3.2.27-3 > > With the new yum version, the update works partcially. I still get a lot > of HTTP 416 errors, sometimes also "metadata does not match checksum". > But yum update also downloaded a lot of files for the update. But for > some files I got an error message with the suggestion: yum clean > metadata. After a lot of this error messages, I stopped yum update and > run yum clean metadata. But now I have the same problems again (HTTP 416 > errors). > > As you suggested I put in a base URL from one of the fedora mirrors > directly. But I get the error "metadata does not match checksum" again. > > Since last week, I reinstalled Fedora 3 times. Do you think a new > reinstall could help? ---- updating should be simple and should just generally, always work. As for re-installing, this isn't Windows (or Macintosh) and the configuration files are all text files and it is generally easy enough to fix a Linux system without resorting to re-install but of course, that means that you have to identify the problem. When I first started with Linux (many years ago), I would find new/novel ways to break a system and re-install and it took a while to figure out that I couldn't use a Mac or Windows to edit configuration files because of the differences in line endings which would make some things absolutely crazy. I do get the sense that you suspect that something you are doing is causing this breakage which is why you are re-installing. Is your Linux installed on ext3 or ext4 filesystem? What are you using to edit config files? Updating with yum should be dead simple... # yum update Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: mirrors.usc.edu * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu * updates: mirrors.usc.edu Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ...bunch of stuff snipped here... Transaction Summary ========================================================================================================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Upgrade 211 Package(s) Total download size: 506 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
