[CentOS] Yum problem

[Peter Farrow]

ok fixed it myself..... 

re-installed yum and yumconf from the CD

did a

yum clean all

:-)


Peter Farrow wrote:

> Anyone tell me why I am suddenly getting this error, I did an RPM 
> rebuild remove all the duff db files from /var/lib/rpm, uninstalled 
> yum re-installed it from the CD, still doesn't work:
>
> yum -y update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repos
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, 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 413, in doCommands
>     return self.updatePkgs()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 932, in updatePkgs
>     self.doRepoSetup()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 89, in doRepoSetup
>     self.doSackSetup()
>   File "__init__.py", line 143, in doSackSetup
>   File "repos.py", line 243, in populateSack
>   File "mdcache.py", line 103, in getPrimary
>   File "mdcache.py", line 90, in _getGeneric
>   File "mdcache.py", line 62, in _unpickle
> EOFError
>
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