YUM problem

Group;
I'm trying to keep my Red Hat 7.3 server updated, but YUM is giving me a
message I don't know how to fix.

Gathering Package Information from servers
Getting headers from Red hat Linux 7.3 base
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
yummain.main(sys.arvg[1:1])
File "yummain.py", line 144, in main
File "clientstuff.py", line 688, in get_package_info_from_servers
File "clientstuff.py", line 128, in HeaderInfoNevraload
ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

My machine does not update. I tried yum clean all and got this same
message.

Other than install a new CentOS OS on the server that doesn't have a lot of
resources, what can I do to fix yum for updates?

Thanks

Doug

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:15:52 -0500, Doug Holtz wrote:

> Group;
> I'm trying to keep my Red Hat 7.3 server updated, but YUM is giving me a
> message I don't know how to fix.
>
> Gathering Package Information from servers Getting headers from Red hat
> Linux 7.3 base
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
> yummain.main(sys.arvg[1:1])
> File "yummain.py", line 144, in main
> File "clientstuff.py", line 688, in get_package_info_from_servers
> File "clientstuff.py", line 128, in HeaderInfoNevraload
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>
> My machine does not update. I tried yum clean all and got this same
> message.
>
> Other than install a new CentOS OS on the server that doesn't have a lot
> of resources, what can I do to fix yum for updates?
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug

why not try something like this:

yum clean all
yum clean metadata
yum clean dbcache

....and lastly,

yum makecache

Remember, "yum clean all" ONLY removes the packages and headers while the
messed up cache remains. I hope it helps...

Have fum!