Yum errors reported by cron

[Bob Chiodini]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 12:35 -0600, Thad Nielsen wrote:
> Philip Prindeville [philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com] wrote:
> > I'm seeing the following from some of my FC3 machines... on a
> > daily basis.  Was wondering what the fix for this was.
> > 
> > >/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
> > >
> > >//var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag 
> > >expected, '<' not found
> > >This site is a Mirror for:
> > >^
> > >Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
> > >Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse 
> > >file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml
> > > 
> Sounds like that repomd.xm1 file is corrupt.  Make sure the first line
> in that file begins with <.  Or perhaps it is time to uninstall and
> reinstall yum.  FWIW, I'm not getting that error on my FC3 machine
> using yum-2.2.2.0-fc3.
> 

You can 'yum clean all' to clear the cache.

I get the same error as you do on occasion.  Rerunning yum sometimes
clears it up.

Bob...