smart problem

mwade · 09-25-2006, 12:43 PM

Hi all, I use smart to update and maintain my system and have had no problems with it until about 4 days ago. I believe it started (but not sure) when I was playing around with python and it looks like python errors. Here is what happens when I try to do anything with smart.

Quote:

smart update
Traceback (most recent call last):##################################### ( 99%)
File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in ?
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, in run
result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/commands/update.py", line 77, in main
ctrl.reloadChannels()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 375, in reloadChannels
self._cache.load()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/metadata.py", line 314, in loadFileProvides
def loadFileProvides(self, fndict):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/metadata.py", line 321, in loadFileProvides
self.parseFilesList(fndict)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/metadata.py", line 346, in parseFilesList
for event, elem in cElementTree.iterparse(file, ("start", "end")):
File "<string>", line 64, in __iter__
SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 479344, column 58

Can anyone translate and/or tell me how to fix this please? Thanks.

MoMule · 09-26-2006, 12:12 PM

Look here first.

After I deleted the channel folder and reran 'smart update' those errors went away - though other errors crept up - look for me next posting...

Deion "Mule" Christopher