On Thu, 13 May 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I am a bit lost The addons repo is the first one failing If I run 'yum clean all' and then 'yum update' I get '* addons: mirror.trouble-free.net' and yum fails If I run 'yum clean all' again and 'yum update' I get '* addons: ftp.usf.edu' and yum fails Both times I ran 'md5sum md5sum /var/cache/yum/addons/primary.xml.gz' for the machine that failed and a machine that works and they match It does not seem to matter which server the repo file comes from