[Yum] Still not working

[mycox]

At 10:23 PM 5/24/2005, you wrote:
>On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:04:47PM -0500, mycox wrote:
> > Now, I wish to make sure it is properly updated on a regular basis.  So I
> > attempted to first use yum by attempting some non-committal commands like
> > "yum check-update" and "yum list all".  Both produced errors similar to
> > those below.
> > On a client Windows PC, I download the latest copy of yum from the Duke 
> Yum
> > website.
> > It was then transferred the file to the FC3 PC and installed as seen below.
>
>I think something in here was your problem. Why not use the yum that came
>with FC3?
>
>--
>Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>

Okay Matt,

Following your suggestion, I removed the current yum version, and reloaded 
from the distribution CD.  The following it the results.

[root at ipxx.xx.xx.xx RPMS]# rpm -ivh yum-2.1.11-3.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
    1:yum                    ########################################### [100%]
[root at ipxx.xx.xx.xx ~]# yum list all
Setting up Repo:  base
repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Setting up Repo:  updates-released
repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 8, in ?
     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 68, in main
     result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 412, in doCommands
     ypl = self.returnPkgLists()
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 954, in returnPkgLists
     ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 612, in 
doPackageLists
     self.doRepoSetup()
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 78, in doRepoSetup
     self.doSackSetup()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 93, in 
doSackSetup
     self.repos.populateSack()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 203, in 
populateSack
     dobj = repo.cacheHandler.getPrimary(xml, csum)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 103, in 
getPrimary
     return self._getGeneric('metadata', location, checksum)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 90, in 
_getGeneric
     databank = self._unpickle(piklfile)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 62, in 
_unpickle
     obj = cPickle.load(infh)
EOFError

Does this give any clues as to what is going on?

Tom Raab