nikunj badjatya <nikunjbadjatya@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > I am working on centos5.4 . My yum had broke down after I did a python2.6 > upgradation. > I reinstalled python to 2.4.3 . Now I want to install YUM.The links are from > centos "http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/" > I have followed these steps. The two dependencies of yum are also downloaded > as rpms. > > > *$ rpm -Uvh yum-3.2.22-26.el5.centos.noarch.rpm > yum-fastestmirror-1.1.16-14.el5.centos.1.noarch.rpm > yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > 1:yum-metadata-parser ########################################### [ 33%] > 2:yum-fastestmirror ########################################### [ 67%] > 3:yum ########################################### [100%] > error: unpacking of archive failed on file > /usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.pyo;4c18976f: cpio: read failed - Bad file > descriptor* What does the following command show: ls -l /usr/share/yum-cli ...my guess is that it's some kind of file system corruption, but it's hard to be sure. -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum