Seth, We use vsftpd for our ftp server. I will see if I can figure out how it is giving a empty file. -connie On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, seth vidal wrote: > 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 > > >