On 5/19/2010 1:04 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:

I have centos 5.4 and trying the command "yum install yum-utils", it gives me an error. I tried the "yum clean all" and the did the command again with same message.

I only have [base] and [updates] in the repo.

yum install yum-utils Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

• base: mirror.nexcess.net
• updates: mirrors.gigenet.com

base | 1.1 kB 00:00 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 178, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 345, in doCommands self._getTs(needTsRemove) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 101, in _getTs self._getTsInfo(remove_only) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 112, in _getTsInfo pkgSack = self.pkgSack File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 661, in

<lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 501, in _getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 260, in populateSack sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 190, in populate dobj = repo_cache_function(xml, csum) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 42, in getPrimary self.repoid)) TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: Start tag expected, '<' not found

What is the next step?

A similar problem was reported recently on the yum list and turned out to be one of the xml libs replaced by a non-distribution openoffice install. Does 'rpm -Vv libxml2' show anything missing or broken?