[Yum] Still not working

[Bob Kashani]

Try doing a:

rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

Bob

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 22:36 -0500, mycox wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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Bob Kashani
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