yum hosed

Todd A. Jacobs nospam at codegnome.org
Tue Dec 23 01:07:09 UTC 2003


Yum is hosed. After checking out bugzilla, it looks like yum can get 
corrupted, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to rebuild the 
/var/cache/yum/* files needed to run yum properly. Clearing out the cache 
directory and running 'yum check-update' yields the following unhelpful 
traceback:

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/base
Getting header.info from server
failover: baseURL = http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
failover: path = /headers/header.info
headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/base/header.info
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
  File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
  File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

This is consistent with the Bugzilla stuff, for which there is no 
listed fix. How can I rebuild/restore yum?

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