Yum Error

[Jeremy Moles]

On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 16:44 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:56:52 -0500, JM (Jeremy) wrote:
> 
> > > > If you run with updates-testing enabled, pay extra attention to any threads
> > > > about test-updates and comments on test-updates in the Fedora Updates System.
> > > > There has been a faulty nss update:
> > > >    https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15612
> > > > You may need to downgrade those packages temporarily.
> > > 
> > > That could be the cause.  The workaround is:
> > > 
> > > sudo yum update --setopt=sslverify=false
> > 
> > This has been working for me for now as well; looking forward to being
> > able to turn it back on, however. :)
> 
> You could try "sudo yum distro-sync --setopt=sslverify=false", which
> would perform downgrades for any stuff that has been withdraw from
> updates-testing.

Would this, plus disabling the updates-testing repo, have just avoided
the reinstall I performed? :) Great info, though. I tried manually just
downgrading everything, but ran into a lot of trouble.

It's not like the reinstall took LONG though. :)