On 05/13/2010 02:27 PM, rray_1 at comcast.net wrote: > self.repoid)) > TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: Start tag expected, '<' not found > one of the mirrors you are hitting has bad repodata, or you have misconfigured a baseurl / mirrorlist line. I wont be surprised if one of the machines is actually returning a 404 for the primary.xml in one of the repos. run yum with -d7 and you should be able to work out which one that is and against what repo. - KB