I think that's because you are trying to clean when it's confused because there are no local files to look at to see what to clean... Try running 'yum update' again now - it should work. Then 'yum clean' should work as intended. -Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Cooper > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 4:55 PM > To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified > Subject: RE: [Yum] What is "non-caching mode" and how do I get there? > > Hi Jeff, > > Thanks for the quick response. > > Already tried that (and I should have mentioned it): > > [root@oppenheimer yum]# yum -d 5 -e 5 clean Gathering header > information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base > CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/base > Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found > Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header. > > > One extra line of 'crap'. Not much help there. > > -d 9 has nothing to add. The problem here, I think, is that > yum doesn't think it's doing anything wrong...so not much in > the way or errors to report. ;-) > > "Jeff Sheltren" <sheltren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote .. > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Yum mailing list > > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Web caching appliances and support > http://www.swelltech.com >
