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.
>
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