On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:12:29 -0500, seth vidal wrote > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 07:55 -0500, Mailing Lists wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:26:14 -0500, seth vidal wrote > > > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 20:16 -0500, Mailing Lists wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have a CentOS-BlueQuartz box... after the recent major upgrade, YUM broke. I > > surfed > > > > the archives for BlueQuartz, CentOS & yum but did not see record of my issue. > > > > > > > > > > I don't know what a 'blue quartz' is but this error: > > > > > Blue Quartz is the Cobalt Replacement GUI > > > > > > result, resultmsgs = do() > > > > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 477, in doCommands > > > > return self.updatePkgs() > > > > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 955, in updatePkgs > > > > self.doRepoSetup() > > > > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 75, in doRepoSetup > > > > self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo) > > > > File "__init__.py", line 260, in doSackSetup > > > > File "repos.py", line 277, in populateSack > > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 40, in getPrimary > > > > self.repoid)) > > > > TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: Start tag expected, '<' not found > > > > > > means you have either: > > > 1. a damaged mirror > > > 2. or a damaged primary.xml.gz file > > > 3. some sort of proxy b/t you and them munging this stuff > > > > > > Check up with the repository/distro maintainer, see if they know what's > > > up. > > > > > I've checked the other lists and no one is complaining about yum failing - so the > > repository/distro maintainer is fine... And I've got no proxy to the internet. > > > > I have the following Repositories set up: > > CentOS-Base.repo > > mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os > > > > BlueQuartz-Base.repo > > baseurl=http://bluequartz.org/pub/BlueQuartz/5100R/CentOS4/bluequartz/$basearch/ > > > > NuOnce.repo > > baseurl=http://www.nuonce.net/repos/ > > > > > > I killed /var/cache/yum, backed up & removed all the repos in /etc/yum.repos.d. I put > > each one back individually and every one threw the error in primary.xml. > > > > has your network provider changed recently? Maybe added a proxy? > Nope... nothing of that sort has changed. I checked that with your first suggestion. Each repo downloads the primary.xml.gz file and a quick scan through it seems like everything is OK. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
