YUM Error

[Jamon Camisso]

Kevin Cozens wrote:
> John Moniz wrote:
>> I have a PC I am setting up with FC4 for my son. Initially, I 
>> installed RH7.3 (what a great distro). I had yum working and 
>> updated/installed a few packages.
> [snip]
>> I presently have another FC4 machine with the very same version of yum 
>> and it works fine, so it shouldn't be the yum version that's the 
>> problem. It seems that the problem might be the network, but I don't 
>> know what.
>>
>> Any ideas? If I can't get it fixed, it means re-installing FC4 from 
>> scratch, then dumping it for another distro if it happens again.
> 
> Since the machine which has the non-working yum was upgraded from RH7.3 
> I would suggest you take a look at the contents of the yum.repos.d 
> directory. The only files in there should be files ending in '.repo'. If 
> you have files ending in .rpmsave the yum update wasn't complete and 
> needed some manual intervention.

You might also check that the repositories listed there are set to 
enabled. Open each file and look for the enabled line and make sure that 
enabled=1 for each of the core repositories.

Jamon

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