Hi Seth and all,
I've got a weird bit of behavior (weird to me, anyway, though I'm getting what must look to someone like a sane error message) after an upgrade of an RH9 box to Fedora Core 1 via yum. I started getting this error from yum:
[root@oppenheimer root]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
So I decided (brilliantly, if I do say so myself), to delete the /var/cache/yum/* directories. This has worked in the distant past when yum has had corrupted bits and complained about them, so I figured it would work again.
Alas, it was not to be. Now I get the following:
[root@oppenheimer yum]# yum clean all
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.
This looks like very sane and sensible advice. But my yum and yum.conf man pages have nothing about a non-caching mode, and a web search only turns up a snippet of a clientStuff.py patch with nothing about enabling this illusive mode. The yum --help mentions the -C switch for enabling caching, but that doesn't seem the right solution since yum is telling me to do the opposite.
Anyone have a clue they can lend me?
BTW-The yum is version 2.0.4-2 as it comes from Fedora.
Thanks!
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Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Web caching appliances and support
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