yum update failing with "Header is not complete"

[Bill Perkins]

Masopust Christian wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i tried to download the latest updates of my FC4 with yum and failed...
> 
> error message is as follows:
> 
> 
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for kernel-smp-devel to pack into transaction set.
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.13-1 100% |=========================| 4.2 MB    00:03
> http://ftp.upjs.sk/pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> and this repeates for each mirror it tries...
> 
> what could cause this problem?
> 
> thanks a lot,
> chris
> 
Sounds like they might have been updating or doing some other 
maintenance at the time. Did you try again later?

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