[Yum] i screwed up

[Seth Vidal]

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
>

yum clean all didn't help it?

Are you perhaps running out of disk space somewhere?

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

is there anything 'funny' about this system?

-sv