Description of problem: With the current updates applied a command like that createrepo -d -g repodata/Fedora-8-comps.xml sends 'createrepo' into a never-ending loop which very quickly prints on a screen over and over: (process:8336): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Parsing other.xml error: Entity 'gt' not defined (process:8336): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Parsing other.xml error: Entity 'lt' not defined Dropping '-d' (i.e. '--database') from a createrepo command makes it to run again. I guess that the most likely candidate in updates to trigger the problem would be libxml2-2.6.32-2.fc8 unless this has something to do with yum-utils-1.1.15-1.fc8 (???). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): createrepo-0.4.11-2.fc8 libxml2-2.6.32-2.fc8 How reproducible: always but it appears that a bigger number of a packages, in an order of two thousands, in a repository is needed to trigger the issue (although I am not entirely sure). Additional info: I just have handy an F8 server with repositories which was hit by this bug and I do not know if the same will not happen with F9 as well.
This should be transferred over to libxml2, I think.
Latest versions of libxml2 based on 2.7.1 and available in Testing (I just ask for a move to stable) should fix the issue, Daniel
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closed in libxml2 update