Bug 1219604 - yum-cron saying 'Updateinfo file is not valid XML'
Summary: yum-cron saying 'Updateinfo file is not valid XML'
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum-cron
Version: 20
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-07 18:39 UTC by John Hein
Modified: 2015-06-30 01:30 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-06-30 01:30:52 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
problematic updateinfo.xml, gzipped (1.64 MB, application/x-gzip)
2015-05-08 13:32 UTC, John Hein
no flags Details

Description John Hein 2015-05-07 18:39:47 UTC
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Comment 1 John Hein 2015-05-07 19:01:16 UTC
That sent before I entered the description.  Sorry.

I'm getting this since last night from cron:

/etc/cron.hourly/0yum-hourly.cron:

Updateinfo file is not valid XML: <open file '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/updates/gen/updateinfo.xml', mode 'rt' at 0x106cc00>


Removing the offending file doesn't help.

I have default config settings for yum-cron config files.


yum-cron-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch
yum-cron-daily-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch

Comment 2 John Hein 2015-05-07 19:02:12 UTC
I can attach the offending file, but it's big-ish (20M).  Let me know.

Comment 3 John Hein 2015-05-08 13:29:27 UTC
Still happening.  Here's more info on the file:

env TZ=UTC ls -al /var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/updates/gen/updateinfo.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20436507 May  8 06:10 /var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/updates/gen/updateinfo.xml

Comment 4 John Hein 2015-05-08 13:32:04 UTC
Created attachment 1023474 [details]
problematic updateinfo.xml, gzipped

Attached is the updateinfo.xml file, gzipped.

Comment 5 Luke Macken 2015-05-08 15:10:22 UTC
This issue should be resolved with the latest repodata that synced out this morning. Can someone please confirm? Thanks

Comment 6 Carlo Graziani 2015-05-08 15:45:01 UTC
Not resolved on Fedora 20, as of this writing.  'yum clean all' followed by 'yum update' results in some of the usual yum logging noise, ulitmately interrupted by the error

Updateinfo file is not valid XML: <open file '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/updates/gen/updateinfo.xml', mode 'rt' at 0x1231d20>

A second 'yum update' (not preceded by the 'yum clean all') yields the same error immediately, without the preceding logging noise.

Comment 7 John Hein 2015-05-08 16:32:18 UTC
Works for me now - at least for the mirror I was pointed to (http://linux.mirrors.es.net).

For my education and being better informed, what was the source of the issue & ultimate fix.  Quick pointer somewhere so I can follow the bread crumbs is fine.

Comment 8 Carlo Graziani 2015-05-08 16:58:50 UTC
Indeed, the error goes away if I modify the yum configuration for the fedora-updates repo, uncommenting the 'baseurl:' line and commenting out the 'metalink:' line.  So apparently the corrected metadata has not yet made it to the mirrors, or at least to the mirrors that are tried by default by my machine.

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