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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