<div>I had the same problem.</div>
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<div>I restore the repomd.xml file from a backup and it worked fine after that. I suggest that you try restoring just that file.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">antonio montagnani</b> <<a href="mailto:antonio.montagnani@gmail.com">antonio.montagnani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">2006/11/3, antonio montagnani <<a href="mailto:antonio.montagnani@gmail.com">antonio.montagnani@gmail.com
</a>>:<br>> If I issue any command trying to contact updates repository I get:<br>><br>> yum list updates<br>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin<br>> Setting up repositories<br>> updates 53 B 00:00
<br>> <a href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=i386/repodata/repomd.xml">http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=i386/repodata/repomd.xml
</a>:<br>> [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates: Damaged repomd.xml<br>> file<br>> Trying other mirror.<br>> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates<br>><br>> And here is my
fedora-updates.repo configuration file for yum:<br>><br>> # Repository : updates<br>> #<br>> [updates]<br>> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates<br>> baseurl=<a href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch">
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch</a><br>> gpgcheck=1<br>> gpgkey=<a href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora">file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
</a><br>> enabled=1<br>><br>> Same problem with pirut and yumex.<br>> I searched in bugzilla but I didn't see the solution.<br>> Perfectly running in FC5<br>> --<br>> Antonio Montagnani<br>> Skype : antoniomontag
<br>><br><br>In my va/cache/yum/updates i Find a repomd.xml file saying:<br><br>XML Parsing Error: not well-formed<br>Location: <a href="file:///var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml">file:///var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml
</a><br>Line Number 1, Column 2:# no arch specified<br>-^<br><br>--<br>Antonio Montagnani<br>Skype : antoniomontag<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a>
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