[Yum] Yum fails using yum check-update

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 00:31 +1100, Max Hugen wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've just installed the yum-1.0.3 rpm on my RedHat 7.2 i686 server, as per instructions at http://linux.lsu.edu/yum.php. All appeared to go well. I'm using the default yum.conf file supplied for this release of yum.
> 
> When I ran "yum check-updates", the following error resulted:
> 
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.2 base
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "yummain.py", line 144, in main
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 688, in get_package_info_from_servers
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 128, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> 
> 
> Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong please?

one of the repositories you are using has a corrupt headers.info file.
You need to re-run yum-arch on it.

-sv