On 10/20/05, Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm running FC3. > > nfs/work/s61> ant > libgcj-java-placeholder.sh > > This script is a placeholder for the /usr/bin/java > master link required by jpackage.org conventions. libgcj's > rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools are now slave symlinks to these > masters, and are managed by the alternatives(8) system. > > This change was necessary because the rmiregistry, rmic and jar tools > installed by previous versions of libgcj conflicted with symlinks > installed by jpackage.org JVM packages. > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher > at gnu.gcj.runtime.FirstThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0) > at _Jv_ThreadRun(java.lang.Thread) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0) > at _Jv_RunMain(java.lang.Class, byte const, int, byte const, boolean) > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0) > at __gcj_personality_v0 > (/disk2/people/hennebry/work/simulator.10072004.61/ant.home=/usr/share/ant) > at __libc_start_main (/lib/tls/libc-2.3.3.so) > at _Jv_RegisterClasses > (/disk2/people/hennebry/work/simulator.10072004.61/ant.home=/usr/share/ant) > nfs/work/s61> > > > [root@hobbes i586]# yum provides ant.launch.Launcher > Searching Packages: > Setting up Repo: updates-released > repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > Setting up Repo: jpackage-generic > repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > Setting up Repo: extras > repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > Setting up Repo: base > repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:00 > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty > > ^ > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' > not found > > ^ > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base > Error importing repomd.xml from base: Error: could not parse file > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml > [root@hobbes i586]# That looks like a problem with yum, rather than java. I'm sorry I don't know what to do about it, but maybe yum clean all|packages|cache etc. Does yum also fail when you try other commands?