the yum errors latly are increasing, yum now wont work at all anymore

[Rahul Sundaram]

Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote:

>[FC3]
>Hi
>
>As many ppl have read or expirenced, yum updates are suddenly turned into a
>nightmare.
>
>For 3 days now i cant update the system (and cPanel uses it too and hangs
>also with updates).
>###################
># yum clean all (i hated this because it deleted 200+ packages that i wanted
>to save for future boxes to update with to save bandwidth)
>Cleaning up Everything
>0 headers removed
>0 packages removed
>0 metadata files removed
>0 cache files removed
># yum update
>Setting up Update Process
>Setting up Repos
>core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
>dries                     100% |=========================|    0 B    00:00
>//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty
>
>^
>//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<'
>not found
>
>^
>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dries
>Error importing repomd.xml from dries: Error: could not parse file
>//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml
>#######
>At the moment is stalls on "dries" but also happens on the others.
>This are the repo's i use:
>########
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   129 Sep 21 19:04 dag.repo
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   163 Sep 21 19:04 dries.repo
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   255 Sep 21 19:04 extras.repo
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   233 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-devel.repo
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   244 Sep 21 19:04 fedora.repo
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   280 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-updates.repo
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   282 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-updates-testing.repo
>-rw-r--r--   1 root root   477 Sep 21 19:04 freshrpms.repo
>#########
>and disabled the -testing -devel repo's.
>I was in need to install a package but i went to the orginal site and
>downloaded a source and compiled it. I realy want to see this fixed.
>Because i am not the only user and i was not the first reporter of this.
>I hope the FC team / yum team will take a close look on this.
>
>
>  
>
If you are using third party repositories that fail FC team cant do 
anything about that. If mirrors are failing yum team cant do anything 
either. If you find bugs report them in bugzilla

regards
Rahul