str tux wrote: >Hello List, > >I tried "yum upgrade" from my RC1 and it goes like this: > >[root@cpu-00228 ~]# yum upgrade >Setting up Upgrade Process >Setting up Repos >contrib 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 >base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 >updates 100% |=========================| 328 B 00:00 >//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Space required >after the Public Identifier ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> > ^ >//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SystemLiteral " >or ' expected ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> > ^ >//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SYSTEM or PUBLIC, >the URI is missing ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> > ^ >Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates >Error importing repomd.xml from updates: Error: could not parse file >//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml > >What could be the work around? > > Try cat /var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml and you'll probably see that the $basearch variable is something like "4beta". Check your yum.conf and manually change the variable to "4". I run a local yum server, and that solved it for me. Lee. -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.7 - Release Date: 3/1/2005