Yum error message -- New twist
Justin Zygmont
jzygmont at solarflow.net
Mon Jul 4 06:05:24 UTC 2005
does the cache directory exist?
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> At 4:14 PM -0500 7/3/05, Benjamin Sher wrote:
>>
>>> Dear friends:
>>>
>>> I would appreciate your help with this yum issue. I can't use yum, and I
>>> don't have any idea what the problem is. Yesterday, I posted a message
>>> with the error message generated by the "yum list available |more"
>>> command. Now I am getting a new error message. Below is the new error
>>> message and at the bottom is yesterday's error message.
>>>
>>> [sher at localhost ~]$ yum list available |more
>>> Error: Caching enabled but no local cache of
>>> //var/cache/yum/sl-errata/primary.xml.gz from sl-errata
>>> Setting up Repos
>>> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>>> [sher at localhost ~]$
>>>
>>
>> FWIW, when I get yum errors like this I run yum as root so it can fix its
>> cache.
>> ____________________________________________________________________
>> TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
>> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
>>
>>
> Dear Tony:
>
> That's right on target! That's what resolved this isseu (see my subsequent
> "Solved" message). I didn't know why it fixed itself, but now I know why. I
> ran it as root once or twice and suddenly it was working fine. I then ran it
> as user and it worked fine as user.
>
> Thanks for this little piece of critical knowledge.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
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