On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/14/2010 02:01 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> For over a week now, layman prints an error message when doing a "layman >>> -S". It gets the list of overlays from >>> http://belak.sbboard.com/gentoo/overlay.xml >> >> If that's belak's overlay, it has a different address according to my >> layman. Look at http://bitbucket.org/belak/belak.gentoo to see if it's >> the same thing. Maybe it just needs to be deleted and re-added. >> >> My layman gets overlays from >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml (as defined in >> layman.cfg) and seems to work fine. I've got no trace of the address >> you're having problems with. Maybe it's something old or something you >> added manually? > > I didn't add anything manually. layman -L (as well as layman -f) says: > > * Failed to update the overlay list from: > http://belak.sbboard.com/gentoo/overlay.xml > * Error was: > * Failed to parse the overlays list fetched from > http://belak.sbboard.com/gentoo/overlay.xml > * This means that the downloaded file is somehow corrupt or there was a > problem with the webserver. Check the content of the file. Error was: > * XML parsing failed for "http://belak.sbboard.com/gentoo/overlay.xml"; (line > 178, column 3) > * Hint: Try running "sudo layman -f" to re-fetch that file
Strange. Is that URL in your layman.cfg in the overlays section? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/repositories.xml seems to be the default URL in layman 1.4.1 on my system.
