yum failure - how to fix?

[Mark Jaffe]

root? No, should I be (duh!!)

-------Original Message-------
From: Konstantin Riabitsev <icon@phy.duke.edu>
Sent: 07/25/03 12:06 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: yum failure - how to fix?

> 
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 14:56, Mark Jaffe wrote:
> I wanted to get a java installed, so I tried to do it via yum. But yum
itself is messed up, this is what I got when I tried to update it:
> 
>  yum upgrade
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Damaged Header
/var/cache/yum/updates/headers/mod_ssl-1-2.0.40-21.3a.ppc.hdr
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "yummain.py", line 159, in main
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 690, in download_headers
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/cache/yum/updates/headers/mod_ssl-1-2.0.40-21.3a.ppc.hdr'
> 
> What does this mean and how to fix it?

Er... Are you running as root?

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Konstantin Riabitsev <icon@phy.duke.edu>
Duke University Physics

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