Re: yum: recurring error 256 on nfs mounted repo

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> We have some special built rpms that were grabbed by an update on one 
>> machine. The local repo is nfs mounted. For some reason, the network 
>> stopped working on the machine in the middle of an update. I 
>> restarted the network, cleared the nfs mounts and remounted them and 
>> everything seemed fine except for the packages coming from the local 
>> repo (nfs). Now even though the mounts are fine and the packages are 
>> fully available and I even copied them back and forth over the 
>> mounts, yum still gives us an error 256 and I cannot find out how to 
>> get it to quit doing that. I've tried expiring the cache. No change. 
>> My next thing is to do a full yum clean all, but I was hoping to 
>> avoid that with so many packages and only two that are a problem. 
>> What can clear this error?
>>
> I just did a 'yum clean all' and the problem is still there. What can 
> we do now?
>
I also tried doing 'yum list PACKAGE' and it finds our packages as 
available.

I'm stumped on this. I looks like it should just download and install 
them but it refuses with this 256 error (no more mirrors to try).

Regards,
Gerry