i am loading debuginfo packages and some stack trace clues are pointing
to mhash-devel missing checksum data.  the xml has:
<checksum type="sha" pkgid="YES"></checksum>

could that be the issue?

On 07/26/2011 08:31 AM, Joe Pruett wrote:
> i have done some strace'ing and it is dieing while reading
> /var/cache/yum/rpmforge/primary.xml.gz.  i have externally tested that
> file and can gunzip it just fine and xmllint doesn't find any issues
> either, so it would appear to be the data itself.  i'll do a bit more
> poking to see if i can track down anything further.
>
> On 07/26/2011 08:20 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:59 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
>>>
>>>> Regardless someone should fill this as a potential security-problem with
>>>> the yum maintainers. I think they should be very concerned :-/
>>> Maybe a good idea to keep a backup of the metadata that is causing this
>>> issue?  Otherwise I don't see how one would be able to reproduce it if
>>> later on we manage to find a workaround for that.
>> I always keep a copy of the past 15 days of metadata (and repository) 
>> because it could help us to revert to an older set when necessary. I also 
>> keep 2 copies of each previous month as well in an archive...
>>
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