system crash while yumming and ...

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:07:30 +0800, FM (Frederic) wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> As the title says it all, I am now left with the following error message 
> every time I try to yum update on F17:
> 
>      sudo yum update
[...]
>      for event, elem in iterparse(infile):
>      File "<string>", line 107, in next
>      cElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0
> 
> Could someone be kind enough to tell me how to fix this?

Does Yum still work at all for you?
Try "yum clean metadata expire-cache rpmdb" first. Does that help?

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Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.3.2-8.fc17.x86_64
loadavg: 0.31 0.55 0.26