[Yum] yum-arch error

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Sep 29 05:55:10 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 13:37 -0400, Paul Pianta wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> yum-arch is spacking out on me and I am not too sure why. Me thinks that 
> it could be a problem with my disks ... but just want to check with the 
> pros :)
> 
> here is the  traceback ...
> 
> [root at trinity 7.3]# yum-arch .
> Digesting rpms 100 % complete: kernel-smp-2.4.20-29.athlon.rpm
>    Total: 200
>    Used: 200
>    Src: 0
> 
> Writing header.info file
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum-arch", line 23, in ?
>     pullheaders.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum/pullheaders.py", line 201, in main
>     headerfd = open(tempheaderinfo, "w")
> IOError: invalid mode:

That's an odd error, definitely.

It's saying it can't set the mode on the tempfile. Which is quite weird
considering it's just a simple 'open' call. Run a check on that disk.

Somethings wrong with it, I'd bet.

-sv






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