after i cleaned up my yum.conf file, everything i try now gives me numerous "failover" errors, like: # yum list updates Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base Getting header.info from server failover: baseURL = http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/1/i386/os/ ^^^ no, it's actually spelled "baseurl" in the file :-) failover: path = headers/header.info Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates Getting header.info from server failover: baseURL = http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/1/i386/os/ failover: path = headers/header.info retrygrab() failed for: http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/1/i386/os/headers/header.info Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/1/i386/os/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found i tried to completely clean my local cache, both with "yum clean" and just plain "rm -rf", and start from scratch, and now i get: # yum clean Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base Using cached header.info file Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates Error - /var/cache/yum/updates-released/header.info cannot be found Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header. i've checked the man page and googled on that, and the few hits don't explain how to get non-caching mode. comments? rday
