Am Samstag, den 10.04.2010, 12:47 -0700 schrieb Craig White: > 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 > > Hi Craig! I am using the ext4 filesystem. To edit config files I just use "vi". I know that updating with yum should be very simple. On my old pc I have fedora 10 (32bit) installed, without any problems. But you are right, I think that something is wrong with my pc or maybe I use a wrong command. Is it possible that this errors occur because of wrong network configuration? Everytime when I open network configuration (in gnome) I get following message: Error while parsing /etc/hosts: Wrong IP on line 1 This is my hostfile (I didn´t change this file) hostname Melanie added to /etc/hosts by anaconda 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 Melanie ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 Melanie I googled for this error message, but I think I didn´t understand the threads. Every hostfile looks a little bit different and I am confused if my hostfile is ok, or not. Thanks a lot for you help and informations! Best regards, Melanie -- 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