the yum errors latly are increasing, yum now wont work at all anymore

[Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net]

From: "Jim Cornette" <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>

> >is there missing something that yum is not working on"dries" ?
> >And if yum fails on "core" or "updates" is it missing also something at
the
> >mirror's ?

> Yum usually bombs out for any problem with repository  conflicts. Try
> disabling dries, then run yum to update the core and other co-operating
> repositories. For the dries repository, you could file bug reports at
> dries or add exclude="packagename" to the dries repo file.


Ok and it always worked :)
Let see i disabled "dries" :

#####
#yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|    0 B    00:00
//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<'
not found

^
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates
Error importing repomd.xml from updates: Error: could not parse file
//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml
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Now what :)

Danny