[Yum] Error updating RH8

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 12:12, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jim Wildman wrote:
> 
> > Yum built from source rpm.  It also barfs on other update requests.
> 
> >   File "clientStuff.py", line 173, in readHeader
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 152, in read
> >     self._read(readsize)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 206, in _read
> >     self._read_eof()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 241, in _read_eof
> >     raise ValueError, "CRC check failed"
> > ValueError: CRC check failed
> 
> You don't mention yum version, but in the latest,
> clientStuff.py at line 173 looks to be uncompressing the
> header payload of something local, and has an uncaught
> exception, which triggered the traceback -- [dumping a stack
> trace is a 'pythonism' default, when there is an uncaught
> exception, similar to leaging a 'core' file]
> 

he was running 0.9.3 - in the fine print.
gzip was returning a crc error from a header he downloaded - b/c the
packages are handled by gzip - only the headers.

If the header is corrupt so that gzip can't open it then that explains
why he's getting an error.

-sv


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