FC3 daily yum.cron reports repomd.xml broken, how to repair and prevent?

[Paul Smith]

On 11/6/05, Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net <d.terweij at nettuning.net> wrote:
> > /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
> > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty
>
> > How the hell did that happen, and what should I do to prevent it from
> > happening again, and what should I do to repair it?
>
> do :
>
> # yum clean all
>
> Repeat every time before u use yum update.
>
> This is a known error that many users have. Although fedora dont think it is
> at there side but at our side (users).
> So keep coming with such reports to convience redhat fedora team that this
> is a serious problem.
> At some point you cant use yum at all. I have test several things (disabling
> failed repo's one by one) and ends up with not enabled repo's at all.
>
> So try many times.. suddely it works just for 1 time.

The same happens here.

Paul