[Yum] ValueError: unpack list of wrong size - Is this a bug?

Carwyn Edwards carwyn at carwyn.com
Fri Jan 30 17:38:20 UTC 2004


Antti A wrote:

> [root at localhost root]# yum -C install alsa-tools
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 testing
> Server: Fedora Core 1 Dag Wieers' repository
> Server: Dries repository for Fedora Core 1
> Server: Fedora Core 1 freshrpms
> Server: JPackage 1.5 for Fedora Core 1
> Server: JPackage 1.5, generic free
> Server: JPackage 1.5, generic non-free
> Server: NewRPMS.sunsite.dk for Fedora Core 1
> Server: Fedora Core 1 os
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
>  File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
>  File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> [root at localhost root]#

I'm seeing this too:

bash$ yum install tomcat5
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
  File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
  File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

Just ran the same command again and it's working fine. Seems to happen 
on slow repository servers. Can't seem to find any bugzilla bugs about 
this atm (point me at them if there are).

Carwyn



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