Newbie...just trying linux for the first time...so please bear with me. Description of problem: 2 problems 1) Bad package update url causes package manager to fail and exit. Cannot add/remove packages or update. 2) After failure Details shows None...leaves user clueless. How reproducible: 100% on my installation. Failure locks me out of all updates thru GUI and command line both. Steps to Reproduce: Not sure how I got into this problem with Adobe package but I'll bet the problem is same with any package. Understand that I don't know enough yet about linux to go outside of the GUI...so I haven't yet...until my fedora bible arrives. When I choose applications>add/remove software...I get an error dialog that says "Unable to retrieve software information" When I expand the details it says ">Details NONE". Additional info: Forum member walked me thru using the console for the first time to run yum update... [root@localhost ~]# yum update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linu...ata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:37:13 GMT Server: Apache Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: adobe-linux Went for a cup of coffee and when I returned there was this addition to the console... You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root [root@localhost ~]# So I went hunting and found these entries in the mail file: ################### Logwatch 7.3.4 (02/17/07) #################### Processing Initiated: Fri Jun 29 10:54:29 2007 Date Range Processed: yesterday ( 2007-Jun-28 ) Logfiles for Host: localhost.localdomain ################################################## ################ --------------------- Connections (secure-log) Begin ------------------------ Userhelper executed applications: root -> system-config-network as root: 2 Time(s) root -> pirut as root: 4 Time(s) steve -> pup as root: 2 Time(s) steve -> pirut as root: 5 Time(s) steve -> adobe-release-1.0-0.noarch.rpm as root: 1 Time(s) steve -> system-config-network as root: 2 Time(s) root -> pup as root: 1 Time(s) steve -> system-config-securitylevel.py as root: 1 Time(s) ---------------------- Connections (secure-log) End ------------------------- --------------------- yum Begin ------------------------ Packages Installed: gutenprint-plugin.x86_64 5.0.0.99.1-3.fc7 adobe-release.noarch 1.0-0 Packages Updated: gnome-games.x86_64 2.18.2.1-2.fc7 metacity.i386 2.18.5-1.fc7 vte.x86_64 0.16.6-1.fc7 ... .......so it looks like adobe got installed [I don't remember asking for this to happen]and it is trying to update...and failing. I don't know where to begin to fix this...but I am enjoying [learning to use] the console. Steve
I know it's july 4th and all...but I don't know how to fix this problem. Only know how to reinstall [I'm getting pretty good at it]. I'll wait for another 48 hours and if nobody needs any additonal information about my setup I'm going to wipe it and start over [hopefully without adobe this time]. This problem is important for newbies...please look into it.
At some point, you've installed the adobe repo and their package is broken. You can either yum remove adobe-release or edit /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe.repo and disable the repo
Jeremy...Thanks for the workaround...however IF the fedora evangelists are hoping that the GUI will work for everyone, then this problem should not be closed. I may be a linux newbie, but I spent 4 yrs programming then 5 yrs as a QA manager with Apple Computer. If this program manager encounters an error...at the very least it should return the error to the user through the interface...at best it should skip the broken package and continue allowing the user to install/remove all the other packages that still are error free. Otherwise...why spend any time developing a GUI?