Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 43639
gnorpm as root causes XML-CRITICAL error for Web Find; doesn't work.
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: If logged in as root, loading gnorpm and then doing Web Find causes: XML-CRITICAL **: Document is empty XML-CRITICAL **: Start tag expect, '<' not found Does NOT happen if logged in as another user, but then if not root, installs usually fail... How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start gnorpm from bash prompt as root (or gnorpm-auth) or via GNOME menu 2. Select Web find 3. Voila, XML-CRITICAL errors printed on host shell, and only a template is displayed in the web-find window. I suspect that this is more of a local issue, but I cannot find what the conflict is. It all works fine if I am non-root, do a web find, and just select DOWNLOAD. Then I have to shell in as root to install the RPM... Actual Results: XML-CRITICAL errors printed to host window (if started from bash prompt) Expected Results: Successful gnorpm web-find. Additional info: Some version information: [root@mars /root]# rpm -qa | grep gnorpm gnorpm-0.96-1 [root@mars /root]# rpm -qa | grep xml libxml-devel-1.8.10-1 python-xmlrpc-1.4-1 libxml-1.8.10-1 [root@mars /root]# rpm -qa | grep gtk gtk+-1.2.9-4 rep-gtk-libglade-0.15-3 gtk-engines-0.10-12 pygtk-libglade-0.6.6-7 rep-gtk-gnome-0.15-3 pygtk-0.6.6-7 rep-gtk-0.15-3 gtk+-devel-1.2.9-4
Very strange, It works for me. Could you try blowing away /home/root/.gnome/gnorpm* and try again?
Odder and odder. At the moment, I'm not sitting at the console, so instead, I telnet'd in and X'd back to my PC. Went through the same steps I gave above, but this time it works. It *has* been two months since I reported this, and I don't think I've tried again since then, so it's possible up2date or my own RPM installs fixed something. I'll try this again when I get back, and post the results.
It's completely possible that there was some snafu at the redhat ftp site.
I believe this was due to ftp site snafu. I'm closing this NOTABUG. If you still get it, please reopen.
I've had this same problem on & off for a year or so (out-of-box RH7.1 has no problems). This **was** working prior to an up2date run 30th Oct 2k1 please re-open as BUG
This is not a bug in gnorpm. It is a problem with the files on the ftp servers. It has been "fixed" once, but nobody seems to be maintaining that parts anymore.