Hi All, what is the meaning of below from yum, 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 408, in doCommands return self.updatePkgs() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 923, in updatePkgs self.doRepoSetup() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 84, in doRepoSetup self.doSackSetup() File "__init__.py", line 143, in doSackSetup File "repos.py", line 211, in populateSack File "mdcache.py", line 103, in getPrimary File "mdcache.py", line 90, in _getGeneric File "mdcache.py", line 62, in _unpickle EOFError This occurred after 1st attempt to do a yum update yum, for a laptop install that I've just allowed onto the net. Same after rebooting. Cheers. CentOS version: 4.1 yum version: 2.2.0 yum.conf: [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 Mark Sargent.