problems using Yum

[Rick Lim]

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On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 12:58 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: problems using Yum

Am Fr, den 01.04.2005 schrieb Rick Lim um 22:14:

> I am trying to use Yum but I get -
> 
> [root at fedorarouter ~]# yum update yum
[ ... ]
>   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

> Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this??

Try "yum clean all" and then again "yum update".

Alexander


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Tried that ,,,, heres what I get
[root at fedorarouter ~]# yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
0 headers removed
0 packages removed
3 metadata files removed
1 cache files removed
[root at fedorarouter ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repo:  base
http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (101, 'Network is unreachable')>
Trying other mirror.
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
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 797 kB    00:05
MD Read   : ################################################## 2623/2623
Terminated
[root at fedorarouter ~]#