# Bad repomd.xml

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139>\
**Category:** SLES Updates\
**Created:** [September 26, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139 "2014-09-26T18:28:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![abrigante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@abrigante](https://forums.suse.com/u/abrigante)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139/1 "2014-09-26T18:28:26Z")

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Is this file corrupt?

Mirroring: [https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86\_64/](https://nu.novell.com/repo/%24RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86_64/)  
Target: /srv/www/htdocs/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86\_64  
D /srv/www/htdocs/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86\_64/.repodata/repomd.xml  
SMT::Parser::RpmMdLocation Invalid XML in ‘/srv/www/htdocs/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86\_64/.repodata/repomd.xml’:  
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor\_perl/5.10.0/x86\_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 187  
Finished downloading and parsing the metadata, going to download the rest of the files…  
D /srv/www/htdocs/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86\_64/.repodata/repomd.xml.asc  
D /srv/www/htdocs/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86\_64/.repodata/repomd.xml.key  
=\> Finished mirroring ‘[https://nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86\_64/](https://nu.novell.com/repo/%24RCE/SLES11-SP3-Updates/sle-11-x86_64/)’  
=\> Total files : 3  
=\> Total transferred files : 3  
=\> Total transferred file size : 1621 bytes (1.58 KB)  
=\> Total linked files : 0  
=\> Total copied files : 0  
=\> Files up to date : 0  
=\> Errors : 1  
=\> Mirror Time : 00:00:01  
=\> New security updates : 0  
=\> New recommended updates : 0

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**Author:** ![leoguzynski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@leoguzynski](https://forums.suse.com/u/leoguzynski)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139/2 "2014-09-26T19:22:58Z")

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Far from official but I see this just now started working again.

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**Author:** ![abrigante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@abrigante](https://forums.suse.com/u/abrigante)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139/3 "2014-09-26T19:41:53Z")

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Agreed. I am able to mirror SLES11-SP3-Updates now.

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**Author:** ![winfriedmuenchefis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6a8cbe/32.png) [@winfriedmuenchefis](https://forums.suse.com/u/winfriedmuenchefis)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139/4 "2014-10-09T12:42:39Z")

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Hi,

same error today. no mirroring for i86\_64 possible!?

I see that the repomd.xml file is gzip format that is the error. can someone do a gzip -d on the Server?

Winfried

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**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139/5 "2014-10-09T13:13:36Z")

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Hi Winfried,

thank you for that hint - I’m off-site, so I cannot verify, but brought your comment to our SUSE back-end’s attention.

Regardsm  
Jens

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**Author:** ![winfriedmuenchefis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6a8cbe/32.png) [@winfriedmuenchefis](https://forums.suse.com/u/winfriedmuenchefis)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139/6 "2014-10-09T16:44:29Z")

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Thank you to the gzip -d guy/girl. it works again.

Wim

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**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/bad-repomd-xml/26139/7 "2014-10-09T17:50:05Z")

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Hi Wim,

thank you for the feedback, I passed that along as well 🙂

Regards,  
Jens