At 10:23 PM 5/24/2005, you wrote: >On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:04:47PM -0500, mycox wrote: > > Now, I wish to make sure it is properly updated on a regular basis. So I > > attempted to first use yum by attempting some non-committal commands like > > "yum check-update" and "yum list all". Both produced errors similar to > > those below. > > On a client Windows PC, I download the latest copy of yum from the Duke > Yum > > website. > > It was then transferred the file to the FC3 PC and installed as seen below. > >I think something in here was your problem. Why not use the yum that came >with FC3? > >-- >Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Okay Matt, Following your suggestion, I removed the current yum version, and reloaded from the distribution CD. The following it the results. [root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx RPMS]# rpm -ivh yum-2.1.11-3.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:yum ########################################### [100%] [root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ~]# yum list all Setting up Repo: base repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Setting up Repo: updates-released repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 8, 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 412, in doCommands ypl = self.returnPkgLists() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 954, in returnPkgLists ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 612, in doPackageLists self.doRepoSetup() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 78, in doRepoSetup self.doSackSetup() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 93, in doSackSetup self.repos.populateSack() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 203, in populateSack dobj = repo.cacheHandler.getPrimary(xml, csum) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 103, in getPrimary return self._getGeneric('metadata', location, checksum) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 90, in _getGeneric databank = self._unpickle(piklfile) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 62, in _unpickle obj = cPickle.load(infh) EOFError Does this give any clues as to what is going on? Tom Raab
