On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:15 -0600, Bob McClure wrote: > I manage 11 FC boxes that get nightly updates using yum. About two or > three times a week, I get this error: > > //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found > This site is a Mirror for: > ^ > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released > Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml > > When I check the machine, it has a proper repomd.xml, so I assume yum > went elsewhere and found it. This is an FC3 machine. > more times than not this is a 403, 404 or some other http error failure from the mirror you're using. -sv