[Yum] Parser error

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:15 -0600, Bob McClure wrote:
> I manage 11 FC boxes that get nightly updates using yum.  About two or
> three times a week, I get this error:
> 
> //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
> This site is a Mirror for:
> ^
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
> Error importing repomd.xml from updates-released: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/updates-released/repomd.xml
> 
> When I check the machine, it has a proper repomd.xml, so I assume yum
> went elsewhere and found it.  This is an FC3 machine.
> 

more times than not this is a 403, 404 or some other http error failure
from the  mirror you're using.

-sv