Still havin trouble with Yum

[VanHalenMan]

You don't need the installation disks. If the file/etc/yum.repos.d/packagekit-media.repo exists make sure it is disabled.

That file doesnt exist. And when I go System>Administration>Add/Remove software, and type something in it says: No package cache is available. The package list needs to be rebuilt. This should have been done automatically by the backend.

Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: pidgin. Please verify its path and try again

@jselover:
I typed 'which yum' and it says user/bin/yum
nothing about yum in user/bin/local tree.

EDIT: Ok I was able to get the package updators packagelist, but any time I try to apply anything, the dependencies can not be resolved.

[devils casper]

Post the output of this

ls /etc/yum.repos.d

[VanHalenMan]

fedora-rawhide.repo  fedora-updates.repo
fedora.repo          fedora-updates-testing.repo

[JamesNZ]

I actually am getting the same err message about the repos on F11. I believe what you need to do is reinstall F11 and in a section of the installer you choose which repositories to include. I'm just going to reinstall F11 now so I'll see what happens.

[VanHalenMan]

I sure hope thats not the case. I misplaced my installation CDs, and well, if I was going to download fedora again, seems like I might as well get FC13 :/

[glennzo]

I actually am getting the same err message about the repos on F11. I believe what you need to do is reinstall F11 and in a section of the installer you choose which repositories to include. I'm just going to reinstall F11 now so I'll see what happens.

Total waste of time. Reinstalling is unnecessary.

[VanHalenMan]

Then is there another way to fix this? Once I get yum to work, im pretty much set.

[glennzo]

Probably. What's the current status? What does yum check-upate and yum repolist show? Also, what version of Fedora are you currently using?

[VanHalenMan]

Both of those show that same error from before:

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "yummain.py", line 254, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "yummain.py", line 88, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "cli.py", line 203, in getOptionsConfig
    self.plugins.run('args', args=args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 170, in run
    raise ValueError('unknown slot name "%s"' % slotname)
ValueError: unknown slot name "args"

And like I said before. Im running FC11

[glennzo]

What if you try with plugins disabled?
yum --noplugins check-update