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My yum has started failing to do search as a non-root user. This was working previously, and then something has been gummed up:

sudo yum update works fine, as does sudo yum search blah. yum search blah, though, generates pages of errors and cannot be interupted.

Can anyone help me understand how to fix this to allow searching with non-root account?

robert@...:/etc/yum.repos.d% sudo yum clean metadata    
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Cleaning repos: fedora updates
14 metadata files removed
9 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed

% sudo yum clean all                  
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Cleaning repos: fedora updates
Cleaning up everything

% sudo yum update               
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
fedora/20/x86_64/metalink                                                      |  33 kB 00:00:00     
fedora                                                                         | 3.8 kB 00:00:00     
updates/20/x86_64/metalink                                                     |  23 kB 00:00:00     
updates                                                                        | 4.9 kB 00:00:00     
(1/4): updates/20/x86_64/primary_db                                            | 9.3 MB 00:00:06     
(2/4): fedora/20/x86_64/group_gz                                               | 394 kB 00:00:06     
(3/4): updates/20/x86_64/group_gz                                              | 394 kB 00:00:06     
(4/4): fedora/20/x86_64/primary_db                                             |  18 MB 00:00:17     
(1/2): updates/20/x86_64/pkgtags                                               | 1.0 MB 00:00:06     
(2/2): updates/20/x86_64/updateinfo                                            | 1.0 MB 00:00:06     
No packages marked for update

% yum search lvm                                  
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
http://mirror2.hs-esslingen.de/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/pkgtags.sqlite.gz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/pkgtags.sqlite.gz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.netcologne.de/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/pkgtags.sqlite.gz: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
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  • it doesn't user problem
    – c4f4t0r
    Apr 17, 2014 at 16:53
  • @c4f4t0r: took a while to parse that until I realised 'it' is probably yum, 'doesnt' refers to searching as a non-root user, and you're suggesting it's just my using of the tool that's wrong. I'm afraid that's not true: I can quite happily do yum search as non-root on my other systems, and was able to do it on this system until yesterday.
    – Robert Muil
    Apr 17, 2014 at 17:19
  • Are you using a proxy server on your network?
    – Michael Hampton
    Apr 17, 2014 at 18:25
  • @Michael, it's running on a VirtualBox with the default network settings - NAT. I haven't suspected that, though, because so is my other linux install, which works fine. Anything particular you suspect? I'd be surprised if a proxy would respond differently depending on the login credentials used to initiate the request.
    – Robert Muil
    Apr 18, 2014 at 15:11

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try installing following package (as root):

sudo yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror

if that won't help, try following

Yum and RPM database corruption - FedoraForum.org

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  • Same problem, I'm afraid.
    – Robert Muil
    Apr 17, 2014 at 16:47
  • Followed the first quoted advice in that link (sudo yum clean all NEXT sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* NEXT sudo rpm -vv --rebuilddb NEXT sudo yum clean all) and it made no difference, unfortunately.
    – Robert Muil
    Apr 18, 2014 at 15:17

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