On 09/15/2011 02:45 PM, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> mv /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz/sqlite /tmp >> >> and try again I suppose - yes, that file is supposed to be much larger - I suspect that it will create a new 'copy' of that file if it fails to find it. > > Unfortunately yum recreates the same corrupted file, even if I move it > out or delete it: Are you behind a proxy? I've had issues where a proxy was caching the file and after the repo had updated it's version, the cached version was out of date and resulted in errors. The fix was typically to issue a wget with the --no-cache directive to request an updated copy or restart the proxy. wget --no-cache http://... -- Josh Miller Open Source Solutions Architect http://itsecureadmin.com/