# SMT error SLES10SP3 **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES Updates\ **Created:** [January 26, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/smt-error-sles10sp3/22047 "2012-01-26T20:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/smt-error-sles10sp3/22047/1 "2012-01-26T20:36:01Z")
I have a customer that just installed a new SMT server, and they are trying to have their first server update from that source. The SMT - server name is - lifeboat2 and the server that they are trying to update is called DC1-eDir When they attempted to update the server they are getting the following error: Failed to parse XML metadata: Can’t add repository at [http://lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/repo/$RCE/OES2-SP3-Online/sles-10-x86\_64:](http://lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/repo/$RCE/OES2-SP3-Online/sles-10-x86_64:) Unknown Error: Downloading metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh.ERROR: Could not add ‘[http://Lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/](http://Lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/)’: Failed to parse XML metadata: Can’t add repository at [http://lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/repo/$RCE/OES2-SP3-Online/sles-10-x86\_64:](http://lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/repo/$RCE/OES2-SP3-Online/sles-10-x86_64:) Unknown Error: Downloading metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh.Cannot execute /usr/bin/rug sa -t nu [http://Lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/](http://Lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/) SMT-http\_Lifeboat2\_pwcs\_edu: Bad file descriptor DC1-eDIR:~/downloads # They also tried the following We also try to edit the robots.txt file and added the " Allow: /repo/keys " before the Disallow: / line but received the same results. I forgot to let you know that but in both cases we get the same error. Would anyone have any ideas what I can start looking into to fix this problem? Thank you, ## – dschaldenovell dschaldenovell’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=93234](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=93234) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=451395](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=451395) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/smt-error-sles10sp3/22047/2 "2012-01-31T22:27:16Z")
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**Author:** ![dschaldenovell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@dschaldenovell](https://forums.suse.com/u/dschaldenovell)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/smt-error-sles10sp3/22047/3 "2012-02-09T14:10:25Z")
[QUOTE=dschaldenovell;1624]I have a customer that just installed a new SMT server, and they are trying to have their first server update from that source. The SMT - server name is - lifeboat2 and the server that they are trying to update is called DC1-eDir When they attempted to update the server they are getting the following error: Failed to parse XML metadata: Can’t add repository at [http://lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/repo/$RCE/OES2-SP3-Online/sles-10-x86\_64:](http://lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/repo/$RCE/OES2-SP3-Online/sles-10-x86_64:) Unknown Error: Downloading metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh.ERROR: Could not add ‘[http://Lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/](http://Lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/)’: Failed to parse XML metadata: Can’t add repository at [http://lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/repo/$RCE/OES2-SP3-Online/sles-10-x86\_64:](http://lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/repo/$RCE/OES2-SP3-Online/sles-10-x86_64:) Unknown Error: Downloading metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh.Cannot execute /usr/bin/rug sa -t nu [http://Lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/](http://Lifeboat2.pwcs.edu/) SMT-http\_Lifeboat2\_pwcs\_edu: Bad file descriptor DC1-eDIR:~/downloads # They also tried the following We also try to edit the robots.txt file and added the " Allow: /repo/keys " before the Disallow: / line but received the same results. I forgot to let you know that but in both cases we get the same error. Would anyone have any ideas what I can start looking into to fix this problem? Thank you, ## – dschaldenovell dschaldenovell’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=93234](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=93234) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=451395](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=451395)[/QUOTE] Another SMT server issue for my customer, "In reference to the SMT project. I have about a 15 zen7 servers that get the same error when trying to run the SMT script or even do a rug sl. See below for error. I went thru about 190 servers and about 15 zen7 out of 90(-ish) zen7 get that same error. Any advice?? BRMS-Zen7:~/downloads # rug sl \*\* (/usr/lib64/rug/rug.exe:30898): WARNING \*\*: process\_set\_current: error creating process handle \*\* (/usr/lib64/rug/rug.exe:30898): WARNING \*\*: thread\_attach: error creating thread handle \*\* (/usr/lib64/rug/rug.exe:30898): WARNING \*\*: CreateThread: error creating thread handle Unhandled Exception: System.ExecutionEngineException: Couldn’t create thread Any thoughts would be most appreciated.