Update failure

[sandeep Patel]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Adam Hough <adam at gradientzero.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Fabio Jara <ronintekorei at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Patel
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:58 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:37 -0400, Fabio Jara wrote:
>> > > Hello Patel,
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 08:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 08:03 -0400, Fabio Jara wrote:
>> > > > > > I hope Tim (ignored_mailbox) will not see your advice. He
>> recently
>> > > > > was
>> > > > > > very angry about yum clean all. Now it's forbidden to give such
>> > > > > advice
>> > > > > > ;-)
>> > > > > Why is that? that worked for me two times in a row now, why is it
>> > > > > forbidden? O_o For future reference.
>> > > >
>> > > > The only reason to use "yum clean all" instead of "yum clean
>> metadata"
>> > > > is if you're running out of space because of cached packages. Then
>> you
>> > > > get to waste bandwidth (not to mention server resources) downloading
>> > > > them again.
>> > > >
>> > > > "yum clean metadata" has solved every problem I've ever had that
>> "yum
>> > > > clean all" would have solved. I would be interested to hear
>> *reasoned*
>> > > > argument about why this might not always be the case (apart from the
>> > > > disk space issue already mentioned).
>> > >
>> > > A while ago i try to update my notebook with yum, and for some reason
>> > > there was a conflict between the kmod-nvidia driver and another
>> package.
>> > > So i did all the normal methods that the error suggest me, also yum
>> > > clean metadata. But when i try to update the same error got me again,
>> so
>> > > i got wild and type yum clean all. Try again and it work! So, that's
>> why
>> > > i suggested to do the same. :)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I think that with the package-cleanup --problems and the --dupes
>> > > something was still there, so the clean all remove it.
>> >
>> > That would indicate a bug in "yum clean metadata". If this happens again
>> > you should report it.
>> >
>> > In any case the sequence "yum clean metadata" and only if that doesn't
>> > work then "yum clean all" is perfectly reasonable.
>> >
>> > > And a short time ago i was having almost the same issue, i asked for
>> > > help in the mailing list, and the problem this time was that the
>> package
>> > > have been updated in the mirror but not it's dependencies. So after a
>> > > couple of days the error wasn't there anymore.
>> >
>> > I don't see the relevance of this last comment. If the package
>> > dependencies haven't been updated in a mirror, neither "clean all" nor
>> > "clean metadata" is going to fix the problem.
>>
>> This last comment was just for some people to notice that sometimes the
>> error seems to be the same if the dependencies aren't ready yet, but
>> these errors are not the same.
>>
>> >
>> > poc
>> >
>>
>> My best regards.
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>>
>
>
>
> So I had a similar issue for the pst week on my desktop machine.  At some
> point updates did not get applied right. Either I accidentally rebooted the
> system while updating or something else messed up.  I could not update
> several of the packages that claimed they were missing files or
> prerequisites.  If you run " rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest" and you see
> "Unsatisfied dependencies" error messages, then you might have the same
> issue I had.
>
> Now if that is the case you will need to re-download and reinstall the
> software and you might have to force the re-install of those packages.  Now
> you should just have to re-download the dependancies of the packages you
> need to get everything updated to the current level.
>
>
>
>
> --
>

Hello
         After doing 'yum clean all' and yum clean metedata'.there is error
in update..
I am not able to update my system........The error is as follows:


[root at dcis ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386                                         |  951 B
00:00
adobe-linux-i386/primary                                 |  12 kB
00:00
adobe-linux-i386
17/17
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
fedora. Please verify its path and try again

Please suggest me.........what shall I do?

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Sandeep Kumar Patel
University of Hyderabad
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