I was trying to use yum to update my RH5.2 system and am getting an error.
I originally saw this when doing a "sudo yum update" but can replicate the same error message with a single package - see below. Googling for this error suggested cleaning up a few things ("sudo yum clean all; sudo yum clean metadata), but for most people, that didn't work (and neither did it for me) and they seemed to suggest a problem with the RHN repository. Is there by chance anything amiss with ThePlanet RHN setup ... or does anyone have specific suggestions of something I can on my box?
BTW, I was able to successfully run this "yum update yum-rhn-plugin" but then "yum update" still fails with the same error as does the example below.
Thanks in advance,
alek
$ sudo yum update pam
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package pam.i386 0:0.99.6.2-4.el5 set to be updated
filelists.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 16 MB 00:01
Error: failed to retrieve repodata/filelists.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum