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 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050721/1fa69252/attachment-0005.html>