Yum errors reported by cron

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Bob Chiodini wrote:
> 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.

Most likely because the next time you run yum, it picks a different 
mirror site which does not suffer from this problem.  I too have seen it 
happen, and I'm also running yum-2.2.2.0-fc3 as well.  Seems to be 
specific to certain mirror sites.

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