[Centos] Re: update killed my x

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 08:49 -0800, beau wrote:
> [apologies to seth, this accidentally went straight to you instead of the list]
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:23:03 -0500, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > 2. What specific error messages are you getting? Can you cut and paste
> > them? It makes debugging much simpler.
> "yum update" gets
> Cannot find any conf file
> 
> "yum -c /etc/yum.conf update" gets
> Error accesing File: /etc/yum.conf
> 
> "yum -c /etc/centos-yum.conf update" gets

you need to fix the symlink from /etc/yum.conf to /etc/centos-yum.conf.

> ...
> Downloading Packages
> Getting php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i386.rpm
> php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i3 100% |=========================|  28 kB    00:00
> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 025e513b
> Error: Could not find the GPG Key necessary to validate pkg

you need to import the gpg key for centos.

http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=17


> > 3. output of ls -la /etc/yum.conf shows what?
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           25 Oct 28 08:01 /etc/yum.conf
> -> /etc/centos-base-yum.conf

yah - the symlink is wrong.

-sv