On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 16:42, csieh wrote: > Seth, > > Yep. > > -connie ok, so I tested this situation out. here is what I found. if there is NO yumgroups.xml then it fails normally and sanely. if there is an EMPTY yumgroups.xml then it fails with that libxml2 error. so somehow your ftp server was handing back an empty file not no file. does that make any sense? I can catch the exception and ignore this file but I'd like to know how that happened at all. thanks -sv