[Yum] yum: recurring error 256 on nfs mounted repo

[Gerry Reno]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> Gerry Reno wrote:
>>> We have some special built rpms that were grabbed by an update on 
>>> one machine. The local repo is nfs mounted. For some reason, the 
>>> network stopped working on the machine in the middle of an update. I 
>>> restarted the network, cleared the nfs mounts and remounted them and 
>>> everything seemed fine except for the packages coming from the local 
>>> repo (nfs). Now even though the mounts are fine and the packages are 
>>> fully available and I even copied them back and forth over the 
>>> mounts, yum still gives us an error 256 and I cannot find out how to 
>>> get it to quit doing that. I've tried expiring the cache. No change. 
>>> My next thing is to do a full yum clean all, but I was hoping to 
>>> avoid that with so many packages and only two that are a problem. 
>>> What can clear this error?
>>>
>> I just did a 'yum clean all' and the problem is still there. What can 
>> we do now?
>>
> I also tried doing 'yum list PACKAGE' and it finds our packages as 
> available.
>
> I'm stumped on this. I looks like it should just download and install 
> them but it refuses with this 256 error (no more mirrors to try).
>
Almost forgot. This is on F10 and yum is v3.2.21.

Regards,
Gerry