[Yum] yum-arch error

[Paul Pianta]

seth vidal wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 13:37 -0400, Paul Pianta wrote:
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>>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:
>>    
>>
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>That's an odd error, definitely.
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>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.
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>Somethings wrong with it, I'd bet.
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yep - bad memory AND messed up disk :)

hooray for RAID 1 !!

thanks for the reply.

pantz

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