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4 Jan 2013


      Good day,
Hi all,
Can someone help me fix up this error i am facing offlate. My yum
suddenly failed to work. The software updater is giving the below error
messages:
All other functionality of my desktop are normal.
My system details:
Acer Veriton intel corei3 x64 with ---- Release 17 (BeefyMiracle) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py", line 2807, in
get_updates
    changelog = pkg.returnChangelog()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 350,
in returnChangelog
    self._loadChangelog()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 320,
in _loadChangelog
    self.sack.populate(self.repo, mdtype='otherdata')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 191, in
populate
    db_un_fn = self._check_uncompressed_db_gen(repo, mydbtype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 242, in
_check_uncompressed_db_gen
    cached=repo.cache)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 1177, in
repo_gen_decompress
    return decompress(filename, dest=dest,
check_timestamps=True,fn_only=cached)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 1163, in
decompress
    _decompress_chunked(filename, out, ztype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 777, in
_decompress_chunked
    raise Errors.MiscError, msg
MiscError: Error reading from
file /var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/rpmfusion-free-updates/46c8e1d50c6e5faf1a4e944a14b4af9d639daa2d555659c11800ef853c7f99b3-other.sqlite.bz2: compressed file ended before the logical end-of-stream was detected
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Thanks !
Arun