yum produces raises EOFError exception and traceback trace on RHEL 5

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Issue

  • yum fails to run successfully and throw an EOFError exception
  • exception originates in "/usr/lib64/python2.4/pickle.py", line 894, in load_eof
  • prints a python traceback
  • rpm packages fail to install

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • rhn-client-tools-0.4.17-8.el5
  • noarch

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