Bug 171882

Summary:	yum fails with "parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stanton Finley <stantonfinley>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4	CC:	katzj
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Stanton Finley 2005-10-27 13:30:45 UTC

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Description of problem:
yum update fails more often than not with third party repositories with errors such as:

//var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
//var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag

Doing a "yum clean all" sometimes helps as does doing a "yum clean all" followed by clearing the upstream cache by doing something similar to:

wget --cache=off http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/filelists.xml.gz
wget --cache=off http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/primary.xml.gz
wget --cache=off http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml
wget --cache=off http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/core/repodata/repomd.xml

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 and yum-2.4.0-0.fc4

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Doing "yum update" as root.
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Expected Results:  yum updates system with no errors.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2005-10-27 14:45:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171881 ***