can't install debug rpm with yum.

Sean seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Wed Jun 7 20:29:59 UTC 2006


What's the latest on the continuing saga of yum problems?  I've seen mention
that there is some directory structure change that is taking a while to
get out to the mirrors, is that what causes this error below?

Is it overstating things to say that the state of Yum is becoming a major
roadblock?  It would at least seem a real disincentive to anyone wanting to
file a good bug report on any other matter.  It just shouldn't be that hard
to grab the debug rpm's.  Are errors like the one given below really the
best that yum can manage when it gets a 404?

Sean


Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up repositories
development                                                          [1/5]
extras-development                                                   [2/5]
extras-development-debuginfo                                         [3/5]
development-debuginfo                                                [4/5]
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/debug/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:19:28 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
Content-Length: 364
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:16: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: link line 15 and head
        </head>
               ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:22: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 22 and a
<a href="/"><img src="/images/header-fedora_logo01.png" alt="Fedora Project"></a
                                                                               ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:23: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 22 and div
                        </div>
                              ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:27: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 27 and a
        <a href="/Download/"><img src="/images/header-download.png" alt=" ">Download</a
                                                                                      ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:28: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 28 and a
ef="/About/Projects/"><img src="/images/header-projects.png" alt=" ">Projects</a
                                                                               ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:29: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 29 and a
                                        <a href="/About/FAQ.html"><img src="/images/header-faq.png" alt=" ">FAQ</a>
                                                                                                                  ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:29: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 29 and span
a href="/About/FAQ.html"><img src="/images/header-faq.png" alt=" ">FAQ</a></span
                                                                               ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:30: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 28 and div
                        </div>
                              ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:31: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a line 27 and div
                </div>
                      ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:52: parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not defined
                        <div class="fedora-corner-tr"> </div>
                                                            ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:53: parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not defined
                        <div class="fedora-corner-tl"> </div>
                                                            ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:60: parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not defined
                        <div class="fedora-corner-br"> </div>
                                                            ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:61: parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not defined
                        <div class="fedora-corner-bl"> </div>
                                                            ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:93: parser error : Entity 'copy' not defined
                        Copyright © 2003-2005 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
                                        ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:96: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 96 and div
                        <br>            </div>
                                              ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:111: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 95 and body
        </body>
               ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:112: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: br line 94 and html
</html>
       ^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag div line 92

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag span line 26

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag div line 25

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag div line 21

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag div line 20

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag body line 18

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag link line 14

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag meta line 13

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag link line 7

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag meta line 6

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag head line 4

^
//var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml:113: parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 3

^
development-debuginfo     100% |=========================| 4.1 kB    00:00
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/os/debug/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for development-debuginfo: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/development-debuginfo/repomd.xml
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: development-debuginfo
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from development-debuginfo: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from development-debuginfo: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list