Re: the yum errors latly are increasing, yum now wont work at all anymore

Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote:

[FC3]
Hi

As many ppl have read or expirenced, yum updates are suddenly turned into a
nightmare.

For 3 days now i cant update the system (and cPanel uses it too and hangs
also with updates).
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# yum clean all (i hated this because it deleted 200+ packages that i wanted
to save for future boxes to update with to save bandwidth)
Cleaning up Everything
0 headers removed
0 packages removed
0 metadata files removed
0 cache files removed
# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
dries                     100% |=========================|    0 B    00:00
//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<'
not found

^
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dries
Error importing repomd.xml from dries: Error: could not parse file
//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml
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At the moment is stalls on "dries" but also happens on the others.
This are the repo's i use:
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-rw-r--r--   1 root root   129 Sep 21 19:04 dag.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   163 Sep 21 19:04 dries.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   255 Sep 21 19:04 extras.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   233 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-devel.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   244 Sep 21 19:04 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   280 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   282 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   477 Sep 21 19:04 freshrpms.repo
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and disabled the -testing -devel repo's.
I was in need to install a package but i went to the orginal site and
downloaded a source and compiled it. I realy want to see this fixed.
Because i am not the only user and i was not the first reporter of this.
I hope the FC team / yum team will take a close look on this.

regards
Rahul