Not letting me download updates for fedora 12 - please help

[milob]

It comes up with that.


update.jpg

[MikeTbob]

That image is way to small for me to view. Can you tell us what is happening?

[milob]

It says there are 449 updates available. so i clickl install. and it returs a message which says "an internal system error has occured"
It says click for more details and it says :
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Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in <module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3122, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 699, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 657, in dispatch_command
self.update_packages(only_trusted, package_ids)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1948, in update_packages
signed = self._is_package_repo_signed(pkg)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1437, in _is_package_repo_signed
repo = self.yumbase.repos.getRepo(pkg.repoid)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 121, in getRepo
'Error getting repository data for $s, repository not found' $ (repoid)

[devils casper]

Execute this

su -
yum clean all

Try to update again and in case it doesn't work, post the output of this

yum repolist

[glennzo]

Happening a lot in Fedora 12. Open a terminal and type

su -c 'yum clean all'
su -c 'yum update'

should do it.

[milob]

Thanks for your replies, but I had a problem with Fedora, and it wouldn't boot, to see more info on my latest problem, see my latest thread.