Bug 1225481

present also on rhel-6, yum-3.2.29-69.el6.noarch

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1063177 +++

Description of problem:

The root cause here is definitely a problem with repo metadata but I don't think that traceback is a suitable reaction anyway:

# yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=beaker-tasks makecache
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, kabi, product-id, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI
beaker-tasks                                                                           | 1.3 kB  00:00:00     
(1/3): beaker-tasks/filelists                                                          | 1.3 MB  00:00:02     
(2/3): beaker-tasks/primary                                                            | 1.9 MB  00:00:04     
(3/3): beaker-tasks/other                                                              | 718 kB  00:00:01     
beaker-tasks: [######################################                                            ] 6935/14647Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 355, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 174, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 570, in doCommands
    return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 1373, in doCommand
    base.repos.populateSack(mdtype='all', cacheonly=1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 383, in populateSack
    sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 260, in populate
    dobj = repo_cache_function(xml, csum)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 46, in getPrimary
    self.repoid))
TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: PCDATA invalid Char value 27


yum-3.4.3-111.el7.noarch

--- Additional comment from Karel Srot on 2014-02-10 03:50:39 EST ---

primary.xml contained Char #27 inside the <description> element

--- Additional comment from Valentina Mukhamedzhanova on 2015-04-07 04:49:09 EDT ---

Can be fixed with something like:

diff --git a/yum/repos.py b/yum/repos.py
index d5e50ac..a0ef28c 100644
--- a/yum/repos.py
+++ b/yum/repos.py
@@ -381,6 +381,13 @@ class RepoStorage:
             sack = repo.getPackageSack()
             try:
                 sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
+            except TypeError, e:
+                if not e.args[0].startswith('Parsing'):
+                    raise
+                if mdtype in ['all', 'metadata'] and repo.skip_if_unavailable:
+                    self.disableRepo(repo.id)
+                else:
+                    raise Errors.RepoError(e.args[0])
             except Errors.RepoError, e:
                 if mdtype in ['all', 'metadata'] and repo.skip_if_unavailable:
                     self.disableRepo(repo.id)

--- Additional comment from Valentina Mukhamedzhanova on 2015-04-27 08:14:16 EDT ---