On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 22:45 -0700, jim martin wrote: > Hi.. I received the following error message in Logwatch for yum cron job. May I know what is it ? > > > /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: > > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml:38: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: LINK line 19 > and head > </head> > ^ > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml:45: parser error : AttValue: " or ' expected > align=left alt="[GDSLOGO]" > ^ > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml:45: parser error : attributes construct error > align=left alt="[GDSLOGO]" > ^ > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml:45: parser error : Couldn't find end of Start Tag img line 44 > align=left alt="[GDSLOGO]" > ^ > //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml:47: parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not defined > <td> </td> That's HTML. Most likely you got a webserver's 404 message, or some other error message, when it tried to access a repo (e.g. a forbidden error, from a repo taking itself off line during its own updating; or some other errors for a repo that no longer works). Nothing to worry about, unless it continually errors instead of working. I wouldn't do a "yum clean all" as otherwise advised, as that throws away everything that you've downloaded, files and headers, and they'll need to be fetched again (wasting your time and bandwidth). Doing a "yum clean metadata" *might* help if you kept on getting errors, but if it recovers by itself (because the mirrors have finished updating themselves) in the meantime, you don't need to do anything. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
