yum problems on install of FC2

[Phil Schaffner]

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 18:21 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just did a fresh install of FC2 after having used FC1 for a number of
> months. After the install I went to do a yum update having and receive
> the errors below (completely unhelpful error messages). I have set my
> http_proxy exactly as it has always been set. Any help would be welcome.
> 
> Jonathan.
> 
> Unable to find pid
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
...
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 498, in proxy_open
>     if '@' in host:
> TypeError: iterable argument required

Try the old favorite "yum clean".

phil