[NTLUG:Discuss] yum issues - fc3

[MontyS@videopost.com]

Greetings.

I am not sure about what I am looking at here, so forgive me if I am barking
up the wrong tree.

Also, forgive the long text.

When I started yum update this morning, I started getting the following
errors:

(Please note:  I removed the <h> from <http..> to keep them from being
active links.)

<begin errors>

Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 358 kB    00:02
ttp://fedora.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/core/updates/3/i386
/repodata/primary.xml.gz>: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 360 kB    00:03
ttp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 359 kB    00:16
ttp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/pri
mary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 359 kB    00:06
ttp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.g
z: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 359 kB    00:04
ttp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata
/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
ttp://fedora-mirror.dkuug.dk/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.
gz: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 359 kB    00:03
ttp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/fedora/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 359 kB    00:03
ttp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/fedora/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno
-1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 359 kB    00:02
ttp://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.g
z: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 359 kB    00:02
ttp://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz
: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 273 kB    00:20
ttp://ftp.hostrino.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary
.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
ttp://klid.dk/homeftp/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/primary.xml.
gz: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Trying other mirror.
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 8.0 kB    00:00

<end errors>

At which point I killed yum.  I finally had to delete both of the
<primary.xml.gz> files and the repomd.xml file from my yum cache directories
before yum started working again.

Question is, was my primary.xml.gz files corrupted or compromised?  If so,
how?  I don't have any unknown repos sites set up in my yum.repos.d
directory.  The only "third-party" repo I have set up is freshmeat.  No
telling what would have happened if I didn't have the checksum verification
set to 1.

Is this much ado about nothing, or is it more sinister?  I don't think my
box has been compromised.  It isn't acting like it, and the box does not
face the internet.  Perhaps I am just being paranoid.

TIA,

Monty