The errors below happen several times during the yum update. Assuming that they must be generated by RPM %post scripts, I had a look at the affected packages (control-center, evolution-data-server, cheese, seahorse) and I suspect it's a problem with the update-mime-database command. Rich. Updating : 1:control-center-2.32.0-1.fc14.x86_64 13/96 /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:749: parser error : error parsing attribute name <comment xml:lang="kid">0bq<jfâMicrosoft PowerPoint Presentation</comment> ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:749: parser error : attributes construct error <comment xml:lang="kid">0bq<jfâMicrosoft PowerPoint Presentation</comment> ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:749: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag jf line 749 <comment xml:lang="kid">0bq<jfâMicrosoft PowerPoint Presentation</comment> ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:1686: parser error : error parsing attribute name <comment xml:lang="kid">eitk<sâOpenDocument Presentation Template</comment ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:1686: parser error : attributes construct error <comment xml:lang="kid">eitk<sâOpenDocument Presentation Template</comment ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:1686: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag s line 1686 <comment xml:lang="kid">eitk<sâOpenDocument Presentation Template</comment ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:2753: parser error : StartTag: invalid element name <comment xml:lang="kid">k9<28jâOpenOffice.org Presentation</comment> ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:3170: parser error : error parsing attribute name <comment xml:lang="kid">4<lqz2âOpenOffice.org Text Document</comment> ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:3170: parser error : attributes construct error <comment xml:lang="kid">4<lqz2âOpenOffice.org Text Document</comment> ^ /usr/share/mime/packages/openoffice.org.xml:3170: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag lqz2 line 3170 <comment xml:lang="kid">4<lqz2âOpenOffice.org Text Document</comment> ^ Updating : 1:cheese-libs-2.32.0-1.fc14.x86_64 14/96 -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel