Trouble with yum on RHEL, CentOS and Fedora
4 December 2013, 23:12:00
I ran into a trouble while updating my Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga).
I could not use yum any more:
[root@ohs mnt] yum update el5_latest | 1.4 kB 00:00 el5_latest/primary | 18 MB 00:02 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 662, in <lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 502, 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/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 42, in getPrimary self.repoid)) TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: Start tag expected, '<' not found |
There are several reasons for this problem.
1) Check if you are behind a firewall, blocking connection to mirror.
2) Update libxml2.
3) Try disabling repos in /etc/yum.repos.d – some of them may cause the problem.
4) This worked for me. Try executing
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64:/usr/local/lib |
then run
yum clean all |
and test your yum.
If it’s okay – add this export statement to your .bash_profile
It worked!!
awesome, it worked. Why do we have to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
Thanks!