On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 10:48 +0100, Will Meister wrote:
> Hi chaps, I've been having some Yum problems.
>
> A couple of days ago I reinstalled FC, choosing FC5 because of its
> inbuilt driver support for my SCSI RAID array.
>
> I reinstalled yum from 2.6.1.1, the most recent stable rpm listed on the
> yum site. rpm flagged three dependencies, which I installed
> appropriately.
>
> libxml2-2.6.23-1.2
> python-urlgrabber-2.9.7.1
> sqlite-3.2.8-1
>
> When I tried to run yum, I got a complex error message which is quoted
> in full below. As far as I can make out, yum can't pick up necessary
> header info. I did all the obvious things ("yum clean all" etc) and then
> Googled around to look for non-obvious ones. I found a lot of discussion
> of yum / python issues and tried reinstalling a couple of python
> components as suggested -- no dice.
>
> In the end I simply reinstalled yum 2.4.1, but I would like to know if
> anyone else has the same problems I did in running later yums.
>
> I note that the distribution comes with an old python-sqlite
> (python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2) for which I guess there must be a reason. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Best, Will
>
>
> That yum error message in full:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
> base.getOptionsConfig(args)
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 177, in getOptionsConfig
> self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 104, in
> doConfigSetup
> self.getReposFromConfig()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 135, in
> getReposFromConfig
> parser.read(files)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 225, in read
> IncludingConfigParser.read(self,filename)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/parser.py", line 126, in read
> ConfigParser.read(self,filename)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
> self._read(fp, filename)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
> raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
> ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section
> headers.
> file: ///etc/yum.repos.d/fnx.repo, line: 1
> 'PMs (FC5)\n'
>
the file /etc/yum.repos.d/fnx.repo is damaged.
fix it.
-sv
