[CentOS] Dag repo

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:45:21AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:00 -0500, John Hinton wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes and I'm glad I have both version 3 and version 4 servers as version 
> > > > 3 is updating just fine, but all of my CentOS v 4 machines are stuck in 
> > > > lala land for about 5 days now. Happened once before, but was fixed, but 
> > > > it's back....
> > > > 
> > > > --------
> > > > Setting up Update Process
> > > > Setting up repositories
> > > > //var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty
> > > > 
> > > > ^
> > > > //var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' 
> > > > not found
> > > > 
> > > > ^
> > > > dag                       100% |=========================|    0 B    
> > > > 00:00    
> > > > http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] 
> > > > Error importing repomd.xml for dag: Error: could not parse file 
> > > > //var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml
> > > > Trying other mirror.
> > > > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag
> > > > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> > > > Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dag: [Errno 256] No more 
> > > > mirrors to try.
> > > > -------
> > > > 
> > > > Same deal since about Wednesday or Friday of last week.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm about to go comment out my chance at beautiful women. :)
> > > 
> > > Pick a different mirror, that one is also an Apache Project test
> > > server :)
> > 
> > Sigh. And chances are they don't know something has been wrong for the 
> > last couple of weeks...
>
> This mail contains no useful information. What is the problem, and what
> do you want us to do?

I don't know what the problem is. Either the file is empty on the 
filesystem (corruption on the filesystem level or problems with rsync or 
NFS) or the web server is handing out empty files under certain 
conditions.

Without access to the system I have no clue whether the filesystem is the 
problem or it is Apache related. I bet it is Apache's problem as mirrors 
of Heanet do not seem to have this problem. (This is different than when 
it was a NFS problem with the same symptoms)

I checked and I currently do not see a problem:

	http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml
	http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml

I have seen all sorts of reports from people saying that it sometimes 
works, sometimes not, and people saying it never works.

Also not sure if it could be proxy or transparant-proxy related.

If you could check whether there are times where Apache logs a zero-file 
transfer for repomd.xml (or other files in the repository) that might help 
find the cause.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]