unable to yum update after yum clean

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 12/2/05, Demond James <maestronn at wowway.com> wrote:
> After doing a yum clean all this is what I get when trying to do a yum
> update.

Known problem and and a fix has already been submitted.

workarounds:
remove all cachecookie  files in the cache directory
or
set metadata_expire=0    in the main yum.conf
or apply the patch in the report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174715