Hi Joe, out of curiosity what gets output when you increase the debug/error output from yum (using the -d -e flags)? I think something like 'yum -d 5 -e 5 update' will print out a bunch more 'crap'. Maybe this will help trace the problem. -Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Cooper > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 4:19 PM > To: yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [Yum] What is "non-caching mode" and how do I get there? > > 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! > -- > Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Web caching appliances and support > http://www.swelltech.com >
