Mark Sargent wrote: > please, what is causing this error.? Cheers. > > Setting up Install Process > Setting up Repos > addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > dag 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:00 > //var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty > > ^ > //var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' > not found > > ^ > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag > Error importing repomd.xml from dag: Error: could not parse file > //var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml I'm no yum expert, but I've occasionally had the above error message (about an empty document) and I came to the conclusion that it is slightly misleading.. As far as I can see, yum itself creates this file in /var/cache, and the reason it is empty is that something went wrong earlier. In my case, I think I got things working by running "yum clean all", though I may have tried this, which I read about on the net - there have been quite a few postings about problems with the dag repository - ===================================== The fix that worked for me was the flush the up stream proxies (I am assuming my ISPs), using wget I ran: wget --cache=off http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/filelists.xml.gz wget --cache=off http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/primary.xml.gz wget --cache=off http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml ===================================== (The first 2 wget lines have been split - there should be just 3 wget commands. Also I'm not sure if I had to change those URLs.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
