Yum error: SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid token):

["Heimburger,Justin C" <justin.heimburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Yum error: SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid token):

Hello,

I'm getting an error when I try to list available packages with yum:

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Reading repository metadata in from local files
ejrpm_noar: #####################################              979/1320Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main
    result, resultmsgs = do()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 516, in doCommands
    ypl = self.returnPkgLists()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1192, in returnPkgLists
    ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow)
  File "__init__.py", line 972, in doPackageLists
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 82, in doRepoSetup
    self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo)
  File "__init__.py", line 291, in doSackSetup
  File "repos.py", line 289, in populateSack
  File "sqlitecache.py", line 96, in getPrimary
  File "sqlitecache.py", line 89, in _getbase
  File "sqlitecache.py", line 344, in updateSqliteCache
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdparser.py", line 61, in next
    for event, elem in self.reader:
  File "<string>", line 61, in __iter__
SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 2380, column 321
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I'm of the mind that this was caused by a package that was added to the repository yesterday afternoon, as one time it worked, and the next it didn't.  I've been searching the internet for a good chunk of the day, but haven't found this particular error and its solution anywhere.

I'm also guessing that the line and column numbers at the end of the error refer to the position in the primary.xml.gz file, but taking a look there shows me nothing different than what's in every other package in the repo.

Any suggestions?  I'm able to get around it by just using rpm, but I lose the some of the benefits provided by yum.  Thanks in advance for your help!

Justin Heimburger
Edward Jones Development Environment
314.515.3996
justin.heimburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

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