On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:14 -0500, Hugh Brown wrote:
> Nick Jennings wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I run RHEL5 and recently have run into a problem with yum.
> >
> > # yum update
> > Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> > rhel-i386-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
> > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.5 MB 00:00
> > Error: failed to retrieve repodata/primary.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5
> > error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> > #
> >
> > I've tried, 'yum clean all', 'yum clean metadata'. Neither of which
> > fixed the problem. I've done extensive google searching but none of the
> > solutions out there seemed to work for my problem. I'm at a complete
> > loss as to how to resolve this and am not too familiar with the workings
> > of yum (coming from a debian background). I would great appreciate any
> > help and/or suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Nick
> >
>
>
> I believe you can do a "rm -fr /var/cache/yum/*" and then do a "yum
> check-update" to re-download the repo info.
>
> Hugh
I know this is a late reply but I wanted, just for the record, to be
clear that this didn't work, and I'm still having this problem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]# rm -fr /var/cache/yum/*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]# yum check-update
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
epel 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB
00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 931 kB
00:00
epel : ################################################## 2908/2908
rhel-i386-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB
00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.6 MB
00:00
Error: failed to retrieve repodata/primary.xml.gz from
rhel-i386-server-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum.repos.d]#
I have no idea whats going on here and google searches come up only with
references to my original post. At one point I think I got it working
temporarily (which is why I haven't responded in over a month), and
generally I leave this system alone and don't install anything, however
I'm trying to update my system now and simply can't.
Is there any way to figure out what's going on here?
Thanks,
Nick
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