yum hangs with "damaged header"?

[HD]

Clint wrote:

> Clint wrote:
>
>> When I try to run yum update, I get an error that tells me I have a 
>> damaged header in the kernel-source header. Since I'm wanting to skip 
>> updates related to the kernel anyways, is there a to either fix the 
>> yum update kernel-source header, or get yum to skip on the kernel 
>> related updates?
>>
>> I'd use up2date, but there always seems to be some additional 
>> packages to update that yum finds which up2date doesn't.
>>
>> Here is the relevant output from yum. What you see on the last line 
>> is symptomatic of the hang. It doesn't always hang at the same "%", 
>> but it always hangs on that file:
>>
>> # yum update
>> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
>> Server: Fedora Supplemental Packages (Stable)
>> Server: Fedora Supplemental Packages (Testing)
>> Server: Fedora Supplemental Packages (Unstable)
>> Server: Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
>> Server: Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
>> Server: Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
>> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
>> Finding updated packages
>> Downloading needed headers
>> Damaged Header 
>> /var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/kernel-source-0-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.i386.hdr 
>>
>> getting 
>> /var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/kernel-source-0-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.i386.hdr 
>>
>> kernel-source-0-2.4.22-1.  12% |===                      |  48 kB 
>> 00:20 ETA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I *think* I was able to answer my own questions, but want to pitch 
> these to see if my thinking is incorrect.
>
> - Why was yum hanging?
> I think it was just "slow" to respond. I started it and left the 
> computer alone, and maybe 30 minutes later it had completed the 
> update, showing me what was available to update, including the kernel 
> updates (which I didn't want to do -- don't want the hassle of the 
> NVidia card and sound card conflicts headaches again)
>
> - How can yum ignore kernel updates?
> I was searching for the wrong term. "exclude" is what I needed, not 
> "ignore". So in /etc/yum.conf, in the first section of code, I put the 
> line:
> exclude=kernel*
> and that seems to perform as I want: tell yum don't bother with kernel 
> updates.
>
>
Up2date hung on me then I tried to get updates last night.... But when I 
tried this morning it worked just fine. I am thinking it was a traffic 
jam or something.

> (which I didn't want to do -- don't want the hassle of the NVidia card 
> and sound card conflicts headaches again)

Yeah I'm waiting for the corresponding NVidia kernel module before I try 
updating that :)

-- 
HD

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