On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 14:13 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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. > > yum clean is always run in caching-mode. yes it's kinda silly error, but if you ran a yum clean you have no header.info files. just run a yum list it will get the header.info files for you. -sv
