yum chokes looking for irrelevant headers

[Javier Gonzalez]

I had the same problem with similar responses regarding failure to locate headers/configuration files, and I had checked to see if everything was correct without finding any flaws in the configuration file.
I decided to do an rpm ugrade just for the hell of it, and it's working now. However, it seems to be doing so relatively slow. Does anybody have a relevant information regarding this malfunction.

As a side note, bitchx, along with mounting my usb memory stick, has been acting up.

-Javier
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Christy <joe at eshu.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:46:26 -0800
To: Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: yum chokes looking for irrelevant headers

> For the last day, yum on one of my two FC1 boxen chokes whenever I run it, 
> reporting:
> 
> ...
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> ftp://ftp.sonic.net/mirrors/fedora/core/updates/1/i386//headers/kernel-smp-0-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.athlon.hdr
>    Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/1/i386/headers/kernel-smp-0-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.athlon.hdr
>    Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/headers/kernel-smp-0-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.athlon.hdr
>    Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> ftp://ftp.sonic.net/mirrors/fedora/core/updates/1/i386//headers/kernel-smp-0-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.athlon.hdr
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
> What strikes me as particularly odd and annoying about this behavior is that 
> I'm running kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl on this (i686) box, so that particular 
> header should be irrelevant.
> 
> I've tried running "yum clean" and "yum clean headers", changing the servers 
> listed in my yum.conf, overwriting all the header.info and .hdr files in 
> /var/cache/yum/*/ with those from my other FC1 box (which has no such 
> problems), all to no avail. I've fruitlessly grepped through all the files in 
> /var/cache/yum/ and the output of "rpm -qa" for the string 
> "kernel-smp-0-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.athlon". After running "yum clean headers", I 
> verified that all the header.info and *.hdr files were gone from 
> /var/yum/cache/. I went to all the archives listed in my yum.conf and sure 
> enough, there is no kernel-smp-0-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.athlon.hdr there.
> 
> Any ideas? Are there places other than /etc/yum.conf and /var/cache/yum/ where 
> yum keeps its self-concept? Why does yum keep looking for that header file at 
> all? Is there some way to get yum to ignore that it?
> 
> And the bottom line: How do I get yum to a state where yum update/install/etc. 
> will work again?
> 
> 	Joe
> 
> 
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