Notice the quoted string in the last line of the Python exception. It refers to ' [playonlinux]\n' which has a leading space character before the section header. Remove that one in the .repo file and try again. Yum's repo loader is not smart enough to do this whitespace stripping automatically.

F14 What is is wrong with this repos ? [playonlinux] name=PlayOnLinux Official repository baseurl=http://rpm.playonlinux.com/fedora/yum/base enable=1 gpgcheck=0 gpgkey=http://rpm.playonlinux.com/public.gpg Error message; 19:34:06 : Connected to an network 19:34:06 : Starting yum child process 19:34:13 : YUM: Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto 19:34:13 : YUM: Adding en_US to language list 19:34:13 : YUM: Traceback (most recent call last): 19:34:13 : YUM: File "/usr/share/yumex/yum_childtask.py", line 66, in <module> 19:34:13 : YUM: my = YumServer(debuglevel, plugins, offline, repos, yum_conf) 19:34:13 : YUM: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yumexbackend/yum_server.py", line 183, in __init__ 19:34:13 : YUM: self.repos.setProgressBar(self.dnlCallback) 19:34:13 : YUM: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 823, in <lambda> 19:34:13 : YUM: repos = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepos(), 19:34:13 : YUM: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 548, in _getRepos 19:34:13 : YUM: self.getReposFromConfig() 19:34:13 : YUM: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 440, in getReposFromConfig 19:34:13 : YUM: self.getReposFromConfigFile(repofn, repo_age=thisrepo_age) 19:34:13 : YUM: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 369, in getReposFromConfigFile 19:34:13 : YUM: raise Errors.ConfigError, msg 19:34:13 : YUM: yum.Errors.ConfigError: File contains no section headers. 19:34:13 : YUM: file: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/playonlinux.repo, line: 1 19:34:13 : YUM: ' [playonlinux]\n'

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On 02/16/2011 07:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 19:54 -0500, Jim wrote: > >> F14 > >> > >> What is is wrong with this repos ? > >> > >> [playonlinux] > >> name=PlayOnLinux Official repository > >> baseurl=http://rpm.playonlinux.com/fedora/yum/base >

> enable=1 > How about replacing "enable" with "enabled"? > >> gpgcheck=0 > >> gpgkey=http://rpm.playonlinux.com/public.gpg > > > > This isn't an official Fedora repo, so why not ask whoever runs it? > > > > I believe that the OP is asking what is wrong with the repo file itself. > > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >

On 02/16/2011 07:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 19:54 -0500, Jim wrote: >> F14 >> >> What is is wrong with this repos ? >> >> [playonlinux] >> name=PlayOnLinux Official repository >> baseurl=http://rpm.playonlinux.com/fedora/yum/base >> enable=1 >> gpgcheck=0 >> gpgkey=http://rpm.playonlinux.com/public.gpg > > This isn't an official Fedora repo, so why not ask whoever runs it? > I believe that the OP is asking what is wrong with the repo file itself.