[Yum] Still not working

[seth vidal]

> 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?

yes, your cached pickle files are corrupted. Remove them:
try: yum clean cache

-sv