yum-cron: Updateinfo file is not valid XML

[Doug H.]

On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 11:25 -0400, Alex Regan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After some recent update, I'm now receiving this error via email from a 
> crontab for updating yum from yum-cron-daily:
> 
> /etc/cron.hourly/0yum-hourly.cron:
> 
> Updateinfo file is not valid XML: <open file 
> '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/20/updates/gen/updateinfo.xml', mode 'rt' at 
> 0x11d1540>
> 
> I've seen references to this error when searching, but it mostly relates 
> to a bug from 2012.
> 
> The file exists, and looks like XML, but there must be something wrong 
> with yum's ability to parse it...
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,


Nobody has replied yet, so I will toss this in...

If you have not yet tried:

#yum clean expire-cache

See if that fixes it.  You should be able to test with:

#yum update

Harder hammer:

#yum clean all



-- 
Doug H.