look like the mdcache format has changed. maybe you can try to clean the cache or erase the cache file (don't know the path, but probably in /var/cache/yum) Mark Sargent wrote: >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. > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >