Re: Yum error: SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid token):

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Heimburger,Justin C wrote:

>
> 1. what ver of yum?
> - 2.6.1 (running on RHEL4)
> 2. what is generating the repodata on the repository side
> - The repos reside on shared NAS.  All clients have identical yum.conf
> files.  One master servers creates all repos hourly to keep up-to-date
> with package changes.
> 3. what pkgs got added to the repo yesterday?
> - There were 19 packages added on the 11th, but they're all internal
> pkgs, none from external sources.  On top of that, most of the folks
> creating the packages are new to rpm and Linux.
> 4. can you post your primary.xml.gz file?
> - Sadly, no.  I'm not sure what data is in there, and since all of the
> packages are from internal sources here, I could find my self in a World
> of Hurt if I publish the contents of our rpms on the interwebs.
>
> Here's another question:  Is there a debug statement that I could add to
> one (or more) of the python scripts that would be able to spit out
> details as the progress hash makes its way across the screen?
>
> I suppose I'll start moving packages out of the way and see if anything
> sticks.

Take your primary.xml.gz and run:
xmllint --noout primary.xml.gz

and see what it says.

-sv