Hi, With yum-2.0.6-1, fedora core 2 test 1-2. While downloading the headers, yum died with a backtrace. This isn't reproductible as when I reran yum it downloaded the other headers. I attached the trace. Hum. Maybe it isn't a yum bug but a python or lib bug... Pat -------------- next part -------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 253, in main clientStuff.download_headers(HeaderInfo, nulist) File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 984, in download_headers checkfunc=(rpmUtils.checkheader, (n, a), {})) File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 1336, in grab bandwidth, conf.retries, retrycodes, checkfunc) File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 237, in retrygrab progress_obj, throttle, bandwidth) File "/usr/share/yum/urlgrabber.py", line 314, in urlgrab fo = urllib2.urlopen(url) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 129, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 1047, in ftp_open fp, retrlen = fw.retrfile(file, type) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib.py", line 743, in retrfile self.ftp.nlst(file) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ftplib.py", line 448, in nlst self.retrlines(cmd, files.append) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ftplib.py", line 396, in retrlines conn = self.transfercmd(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ftplib.py", line 345, in transfercmd return self.ntransfercmd(cmd, rest)[0] File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ftplib.py", line 328, in ntransfercmd if resp[0] != '1': IndexError: string index out of range