That did it. I wiped out everything from /var/cache/yum and let it rebuilt it. It's working again. Thanks Troy Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Troy Dawson wrote: > > >>Howdy, >>This traceback might be a problem on the machine's end, and not yum. I just >>need a little pointing in the right direction. >> >>The problem is on a 7.3 machine, with rpm 4.0.4, python 1.5.2-38, and as far >>as I can tell, pretty much like any other machine. It is a laptop, if that >>has anthing to do with anything. Here is the traceback >> >># yum update >>Gathering package information from servers >>Getting headers from: Fermi Linux 73rolling main >>Getting headers from: Fermi Linux 73rolling updates >>Finding updated packages >>Downloading needed headers >>Resolving dependencies >>Traceback (innermost last): >> File "/usr/sbin/yum", line 24, in ? >> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) >> File "yummain.py", line 201, in main >> File "nevral.py", line 219, in resolvedeps >> File "nevral.py", line 69, in getHeader >> File "clientStuff.py", line 167, in readHeader >> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/gzip.py", line 150, in read >> self._read(readsize) >> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/gzip.py", line 201, in _read >> uncompress = self.decompress.flush() >>zlib.error: Error -5 while decompressing > > > I had a similar problem when I had a messed up NFS mount of > /var/cache/yum/server. For one reason or another the images of > installed files and installed headers got into an inconsistent state > that caused a crash, possibly because yum lost write permissions > somewhere that it needed them, possibly because some files were > corrupted and it couldn't deal with the corruption without crashing. > > Try deleting or moving and recreating /var/cache/yum/[server,packages] > and see if it (after completely rebuilding its headers and rpm cache, > unfortunately) doesn't proceed correctly once again. > > rgb > > >># >># rpm -q yum rpm rpm-python gzip >>yum-0.9.2-1f5 >>rpm-4.0.4-7x.18 >>rpm-python-4.0.4-7x.18 >>gzip-1.3.3-1 >># rpm -V yum rpm-python gzip >># >># rpm -q python >>python-1.5.2-38 >># rpm -V python >># >> >>Any idea's where to start looking to fix this? >> >>Troy >> >>-- >>__________________________________________________ >>Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 >>Fermilab ComputingDivision/OSS CSI Group >>__________________________________________________ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Yum mailing list >>Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >> > > > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/OSS CSI Group __________________________________________________
