In article <1092518705.31573.2.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:14, Tony Mountifield wrote: > > Anyone else seen this? I have been getting the following error for > > the last couple of days or so, from ayo.freshrpms.net: > > > > [root@softins root]# yum list updates > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core > > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - freshrpms > > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates > > Damaged or Bad header.info from Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates > > This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info on a repository. > > [root@softins root]# yum --version > > 2.0.7 > > > > On a different server with an older yum I get this: > > > > [root@host1 root]# yum list updates > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core > > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - freshrpms > > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates > > 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 > > [root@host1 root]# yum --version > > 2.0.4 > > > > Yah - the repo has got a host header.info file. > > You can upgrade to yum 2.0.5 to see a much friendlier error message :) You mean like the one I quoted above from 2.0.7? I'm assuming there's something wrong on the server, rather than at my end, but wanted to check if others were having the same trouble. Did you mean "hosed" header.info file? Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - http://tony.mountifield.org
