Description of problem: I tried: $ yum provides /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules/libpk-gtk-module.so Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit Importing additional filelist information Error: Caching enabled but no local cache of //var/cache/yum/rawhide/4416992610e6a7aaf089a4c6cba2a694887f6c70-filelists.sqlite.bz2 from rawhide Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.20-7.fc11.noarch How reproducible: Always, the repo configuration doesn't matter Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum provides /etc 2. 3. Actual results: Above message Expected results: Get the missing file and continue Additional info:
If you run it as root does it work?
Yes, running as root does work.
right, then what is it you want this to do? The data yum needs to do the lookup is not present and you're not running as root. So it can't write to the paths where it normally would.