problems using Yum

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:39 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Rick Lim wrote:
> > I am trying to use Yum but I get -
> > 
> > [root at fedorarouter ~]# yum update yum
> > Setting up Update Process
> > 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 381, in doCommands
> >     return self.updatePkgs()
> >   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 766, in updatePkgs
> >     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
> > [root at fedorarouter ~]#
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this??
> > 
> 
> yes... forget about yum cause its a genuine pain in the backside and not 
> worth your effort. Apt works much better and doesn't complain stupidly 
> about things it "should" know how to do without the amount of messauging 
> that yum takes to do the simplest things.
----
that's an opinion, and without attempting to assess the worthiness of
that opinion, it doesn't do anything to answer the OP's question.

There has been a problem reported with the latest yum and using it with
a proxy - if that is your issue, see...

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150937>

if that is not the problem, try executing 'yum clean' first

Craig