yum cron job error

Ben Stringer ben at burbong.com
Sun Jun 18 09:27:56 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 22:45 -0700, jim martin wrote:
> Hi.. I received the following error message in Logwatch for yum cron job.  May I know what is it ?

It looks like whilst doing a yum upgrade or install, you have had a
partial (or bad) download of some meta data used by yum. This can happen
if a mirror is bad or in the process of changing.

Try (as root):

  yum clean all

which should get you back to a clean slate.

Cheers, Ben





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