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
>
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