Hi, may be someone has an idea what's broken on one of our RH EL 6.1 server. I tried all suggestions from the centosforum http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20237 but without success. Thanks for any suggestion . best Regards . Götz Loaded plugins: rhnplugin Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 274, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 129, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 432, in doCommands self._getTs(needTsRemove) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 99, in _getTs self._getTsInfo(remove_only) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 110, in _getTsInfo pkgSack = self.pkgSack File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 882, in <lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 668, in _getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 260, in populateSack self.doSetup() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 72, in doSetup self.ayum.plugins.run('prereposetup') File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 184, in run func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 121, in prereposetup_hook str(e)) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateErrors.py", line 177, in __repr__ "The message was:\n") + self.errmsg UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128) -- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Akademiehof 10 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Jürgen Walter MdL Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt