Re: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely stuck

2014-02-20 Thread bc98kinney
my Galaxy SIII  Original message From: Ed Greshko Date:02/20/2014 23:06 (GMT-06:00) To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely stuck On 02/21/14 11:48, Bob Kinney wrote: > > No one wants to

Re: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely stuck

2014-02-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/21/14 11:48, Bob Kinney wrote: > > No one wants to take a swing at this one? Try cd /var/cache/yum/i386/19/ mv fedora fedora-orig yum check-update FYI, I've no problems to update an F19 system. > > I'm totally in limbo--I cannot fix Tbird because yum is hosed. I can't > reins

RE: Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely stuck

2014-02-20 Thread bc98kinney
Another clue:  I copied a binary file from the system drive to another, and on each drive to a local subfolder. cmp is reporting differences in all of them. What the hell is going on?  Is this thing crazy or possessed? No one wants to take a swing at this one? I'm totally in limbo--I cannot

Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream" -- now completely stuck

2014-02-20 Thread Bob Kinney
No one wants to take a swing at this one? I'm totally in limbo--I cannot fix Tbird because yum is hosed.  I can't reinstall F19 because my media is or became hosed, and the iso is hosed.  I'm pretty consistent about checking downloads and media before burning and installing, and I'm pretty sur

Fedora 19 yum update fails "invalid data stream"

2014-02-16 Thread Bob Kinney
I am having problems with Firefox and Thunderbird (Tbird crashed hard the other day), and I thought I'd run yum update (auto-notification is pretty flaky in Mate) before reinstalling both of them.  It seems that yum is broken also.  I keep getting the following message: [root@otis yumsql]# yu