On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:34 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Bob Taylor wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Bob, > > > > > > Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. > > > > I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non > > i386 rpm. I have verified this by downloading the latest kernel rpm. I > > If rpm is broken, why not try to upgrade rpm on top of itself? > > rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.rpm > > You will need to manually download the rpm package again. > > > had to use --ignorearch flag to get rpm to install it. Now how do I get > > this flag to yum? I have exactarch=0 in /etc/yum.conf which I presumed > > was to fix this. It does not work. I have tried to pass this flag > > via /root/.rpmmacros with no help. So, why do only myself apparently > > have this problem? One other item. I made *no* changes to any yum files > > after installation except the addition of (maybe) rpmforge. One kernel > > was updated around this time. My guess is the problem started around the > > update to 5.1. Anybody have any input as to why at least one person does > > not have this problem? What could he have that is different from me > > regarding yum and rpm? Reading this I apologize for the ramble. > > > Bob, > > I wouldn't muck with any more options, try to undo the changes you > have made. Didn't make any except possibly rpmforge.repo. > I didn't see what the rpm error was you got when you tried to > install it, did you post it to the thread? > > You said you re-installed yum, how did you remove yum? yum remove yum Installed yum from my installation CD, ran yum update yum with no change. > If you did a rpm -e yum, then the yum plugins may have still been left > behind. Here is the list you provided earlier: None. [snip] > The yum plugin that catches my attention is 'yum-versionlock' enabled=0 -- Bob Taylor