ronking@dslextreme.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I try to run smart I get the following:
>
> austria:/home/ron # smart upgrade
> Loading cache...
> 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/upgrade.py", line
> 85, 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 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
>
> YOU doesn't show me any upgrades available, but I'm sure there are some.
> Anyone know what the above error means?
>
> Thanks,

IIRC, as root, I deleted /var/lib/smart/channels & then ran
smart --update
HTH