What's it mean? [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

[Doran Barton]

Not long ago, Doran Barton proclaimed...
> Suddenly about four or five days ago, anytime I run 'yum update' I get
> these errors:
> 
>    [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> 
> I figured my metadata was corrupt, so I did a 'yum clean all' and it
> removed a few things.
> 
> I'm running FC3 and have the freshrpms-release RPM installed as well. When
> I run 'yum update', this is what I see:

> http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
...


Nobody answered, but I figured it out. It was MY fault. 

Our friendly dansguardian proxy/filter was blocking HTTP requests for .gz
files. Once I disabled that behavior, everything worked fine. 

It's a little irritating the dansguardian is set up with preschool-level
filtering out of the box. Ah well.

-=Fozz

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