From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 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. 2. 3. Expected Results: yum updates system with no errors. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171881 ***