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Following a hard drive corruption I have reinstalled the latest version of CentOS and all current patch files. For most applications I selected the default options. By doing this I expected that the packages would play nice with one another and I could customize as necessary. Setting SELinux to enforce I encountered all sorts of problems - but most were resolvable, save for Dovecot,

Hi - Last year I set up a new CentOS 5 server and through the install process permitted it to set up dovecot as my IMAP server. ./dovecote --version returns "1.0.rc15" With the system up and running I moved the tar files of my old email accounts over and everything seemed to be just fine. Recently I have upgraded my primary workstation to a Mac Pro - and that of course has

Just built a new server based on CentOS 5.0 which included Samba 3.0232. I also added Webmin as the server is in the closet without a monitor currently. When I went thorugh the generla tutorial with Webmin Samba worked, but showed all root directories, except for /home. That was not as expected and certainly not very helpful. So, I went back and tried again baseed on what I had used in the

I could use some help here - As I use Dovecot I started here when trying to figure out why I could not add new mail folders under my Mac's Mail program, but could under Thunderbird. It was quickly pointed out that my system was set up to use MBOX and not MAILDIR, and some helpful links and notes were sent back and forth giving me a good clue as to how to perform the conversion

Has anyone seen this before? [root at shelob rpm]# yum update rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?

When I do the following: yum install perl-XML-Parser I get all these errors. Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com * base: centos.cs.wisc.edu * extras: mirror.trouble-free.net * updates: mirrors.serveraxis.net Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?

Dear Friends, Today , I ran command yum update and I received follow error below. ======================= BEGIN ========= Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main

I have a new SentOS 5 system and have been having problems with Samba. I had been able to access my test share but not my home share. Attempting to re-set thigns as describe by the "webmin configure samba" info resluted in being able to see everything but the home shares. I don't know if I could have copied or written to these other directories - didn't try. Continued

I have centos 5.4 and trying the command "yum install yum-utils", it gives me an error. I tried the "yum clean all" and the did the command again with same message. I only have [base] and [updates] in the repo. yum install yum-utils Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.nexcess.net * updates: mirrors.gigenet.com base

I'm having a problem with a fairly new server. Running yum upgrade I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 105, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 289, in doCommands

I am getting the the following error on 5.3 x86_64 yum provides "*/identify" Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.steadfast.net * updates: ftp.lug.udel.edu * addons: centos.cs.wisc.edu * extras: centos.cs.wisc.edu Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:],

I had updated by yum,however alway received the same result. The result was: filelists.xml.gz | 1.0 MB 00:15 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File

Just FYI. This machine has been offline and not updated for several months. I booted it and ran yum update. It generated an error. I googled the error, no hits. I did "yum clean all". Tried yum update again, it finished dependency resolution and reported some missing dependencies. I can deal with that. love and kisses, Dave Here is the tail end of the error output: ---> Package

Hi, I am using Centos 4.6 on x86-64. recently when I tried to do a yum -y check-update this is the output I get [root at amd64 ~]# yum check-update Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00

is this a known issue? # yum update py\* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: download.srv.ro * updates: download.srv.ro * addons: download.srv.ro * extras: download.srv.ro Skipping security plugin, no data Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies Skipping security plugin, no data --> Running transaction check ---> Package

Hi everyone, Yum on one my CentOS systems has decided to stop functioning after an upgrade to CentOS 4.6. It's complaining about errors with Python-SQLite packages? Any ideas anyone? Here is what happens. [root at monk var]# yum search zaptel Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29,

I've been Googling on this all day, installing GPG Keys, and trying different yum configurations. I noticed a similar question in the list a couple of months ago about going from RHEL to Centos-3, but the answer wasn't definitive. Has anyone done this? Can this be done? Can it be done with yum? If so, how? When I 'yum update' I get /usr/bin/yum, yummain.main, yummain.py,

Hi All, what is the meaning of below from yum, Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 68, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 408, in doCommands return self.updatePkgs() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py",

Anyone tell me why I am suddenly getting this error, I did an RPM rebuild remove all the duff db files from /var/lib/rpm, uninstalled yum re-installed it from the CD, still doesn't work: yum -y update Setting up Update Process Setting up Repos addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00

Hi I am getting the following errors when i try to use yum to install the net-snmp paclages. [root at sc1 yum.repos.d]# yum install net-snmp Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229,