Description of problem: 'dnf group list' fails with traceback when comps.xml in an enabled repository is empty Related bug 830739 has been reported for yum in the past. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dnf-2.7.5-2.fc27.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a repo with empty comps.xml (e.g. in a directory with some .rpm files run # touch comps.xml # createrepo_c -g comps.xml . and create a .repo file with baseurl pointing to that directory) 2. run # dnf group list Actual results: # dnf --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=dummyrepo group list Last metadata expiration check: 0:18:35 ago on Mon 12 Feb 2018 06:33:00 AM EST. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/dnf", line 58, in <module> main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 179, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 64, in main return _main(base, args, cli_class, option_parser_class) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 99, in _main return cli_run(cli, base) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 115, in cli_run cli.run() File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/cli.py", line 1014, in run return self.command.run() File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/commands/group.py", line 375, in run self._grp_setup() File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/cli/commands/group.py", line 108, in _grp_setup self.base.read_comps(arch_filter=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 550, in read_comps self._comps._add_from_xml_filename(decompressed) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/comps.py", line 328, in _add_from_xml_filename ret = comps.fromxml_f(fn) _libpycomps.ParserError: Fatal parser error Expected results: no traceback Additional info: /CoreOS/yum/Regression/bz830739-yum-langpacks-tracebacks-comps-xml-has-zero-length can help to create a reproducer
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1537957 ***