I had the same problem.
I restore the repomd.xml file from a backup and it worked fine after that. I suggest that you try restoring just that file.
On 11/3/06, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2006/11/3, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani@xxxxxxxxx >:
> If I issue any command trying to contact updates repository I get:
>
> yum list updates
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up repositories
> updates 53 B 00:00
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=i386/repodata/repomd.xml :
> [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates: Damaged repomd.xml
> file
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates
>
> And here is my fedora-updates.repo configuration file for yum:
>
> # Repository : updates
> #
> [updates]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates
> baseurl= http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> enabled=1
>
> Same problem with pirut and yumex.
> I searched in bugzilla but I didn't see the solution.
> Perfectly running in FC5
> --
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag
>
In my va/cache/yum/updates i Find a repomd.xml file saying:
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml
Line Number 1, Column 2:# no arch specified
-^
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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
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