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?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com