Yum errors reported by cron

[Philip Prindeville]

I'm seeing the following from some of my FC3 machines... on a
daily basis.  Was wondering what the fix for this was.
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
>
> //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
> This site is a Mirror for:
> ^
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
> Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml

[Thaddeus Nielsen]

Philip Prindeville [[e-mail]] wrote:
> I'm seeing the following from some of my FC3 machines... on a
> daily basis.  Was wondering what the fix for this was.
> > /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
> >
> > //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag 
> > expected, '<' not found
> > This site is a Mirror for:
> > ^
> > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
> > Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse 
> > file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml

Sounds like that repomd.xm1 file is corrupt.  Make sure the first line
in that file begins with <.  Or perhaps it is time to uninstall and
reinstall yum.  FWIW, I'm not getting that error on my FC3 machine
using yum-2.2.2.0-fc3.

[Bob Chiodini]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 12:35 -0600, Thad Nielsen wrote:
> Philip Prindeville [[e-mail]] wrote:
> > I'm seeing the following from some of my FC3 machines... on a
> > daily basis.  Was wondering what the fix for this was.
> > > /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
> > >
> > > //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag 
> > > expected, '<' not found
> > > This site is a Mirror for:
> > > ^
> > > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
> > > Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse 
> > > file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml
>
> Sounds like that repomd.xm1 file is corrupt.  Make sure the first line
> in that file begins with <.  Or perhaps it is time to uninstall and
> reinstall yum.  FWIW, I'm not getting that error on my FC3 machine
> using yum-2.2.2.0-fc3.

You can 'yum clean all' to clear the cache.

I get the same error as you do on occasion.  Rerunning yum sometimes
clears it up.

Bob...

[Kevin Cummings]

Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 12:35 -0600, Thad Nielsen wrote:
> > Philip Prindeville [[e-mail]] wrote:
> > > I'm seeing the following from some of my FC3 machines... on a
> > > daily basis.  Was wondering what the fix for this was.
> > > > /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
> > > >
> > > > //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag 
> > > > expected, '<' not found
> > > > This site is a Mirror for:
> > > > ^
> > > > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
> > > > Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse 
> > > > file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml
> >
> > Sounds like that repomd.xm1 file is corrupt.  Make sure the first line
> > in that file begins with <.  Or perhaps it is time to uninstall and
> > reinstall yum.  FWIW, I'm not getting that error on my FC3 machine
> > using yum-2.2.2.0-fc3.
>
> You can 'yum clean all' to clear the cache.
>
> I get the same error as you do on occasion.  Rerunning yum sometimes
> clears it up.

Most likely because the next time you run yum, it picks a different 
mirror site which does not suffer from this problem.  I too have seen it 
happen, and I'm also running yum-2.2.2.0-fc3 as well.  Seems to be 
specific to certain mirror sites.