Re: i screwed up

On Thu, 13 May 2010, Seth Vidal wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 13 May 2010, Richard Ray wrote:
>
>>  I have several machine running CentOS
>>  I upgraded all of them from 5.3 to 5.4
>>  One machine has a yum problem after upgrading
>>
>>  # yum update
>>  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>>  Determining fastest mirrors
>>  * addons: mirror.trouble-free.net
>>  * base: mirror.team-cymru.org
>>  * extras: mirror.team-cymru.org
>>  * updates: mirror.raystedman.net
>>  addons                                                   |  951 B 00:00
>>  addons/primary                                           |  201 B 00:00
>>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>>     yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
>>     errcode = main(args)
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 178, in main
>>     result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 345, in doCommands
>>     self._getTs(needTsRemove)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 101, in
>>  _getTs
>>     self._getTsInfo(remove_only)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 112, in
>>  _getTsInfo
>>     pkgSack = self.pkgSack
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 661, in
>>  <lambda>
>>     pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 501, in
>>  _getSacks
>>     self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 260, in
>>  populateSack
>>     sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 190, in
>>  populate
>>     dobj = repo_cache_function(xml, csum)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 42, in
>>  getPrimary
>>     self.repoid))
>>  TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: Start tag expected, '<' not found
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  I have tried 'yum clean all', 'yum --noplugins', 'rm -r /var/cache/yum/*',
>>  deleting all yum packages and reinstalling, and nothing helps
>>  If I copy /var/cache/yum/* from a working machine all is well
>>  I have used md5sum to check the downloaded files and they match the files
>>  on a working machine
>>  If I disable the addons repo the other repos load ok
>>  Also rpmforge repo breaks yum
>>  What else might I try
>> 
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> yum clean all didn't help it?

no

>
> Are you perhaps running out of disk space somewhere?

no
got gigs free

>
> B/c the above says you have a damaged primary.xml file - probably in the 
> 'addons' repo.

correct
if i disable addons repo all is well
md5sum shows the primary.xml.gz file is the same as the one on working 
machines

>
> is there anything 'funny' about this system?

yes, yum does not work :)
it has been running as configured for several years
i ran 'yum update' to update from 5.3 to 5.4
update had no problems
i performed the same update on several other machines and had no problem
all machines are configured pretty much the same
all machines are 32 bit

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