[CentOS] yum install

Wed May 19 18:21:15 UTC 2010
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com