Fedora 10 error - yum repos file contains parsing errors... what to do?

Bruce Jamieson · 02-05-2009, 01:30 PM

Hey, everyone! New to Linux but I've been working with Macs for years. I'm running Fedora 10 on a Mac Pro. I'm having trouble doing a system update. When I try to run it, I get the following error:

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Error Type: &lt;class &apos;yum.Errors.ConfigError&apos;&gt;
Error Value: File contains parsing errors: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo

Here's the data in that file:

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[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core  -  - ATrmps
baseurl=http://dl.adrpms.net/f-/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
enabled = 0
EOF

From what I understand, the file in question points yum to the ATrpms software repository. Figuring that this file was somehow corrupted, I thought that I could just delete the file and re-establish the link to ATrpms later. Only, I can't delete the file from the GUI (since it's owned by root) and I simply can't seem to find the right info on how to do that through the terminal. And though I can open the "atrpms.repo" file, I can't save it with any changes for the same reason.

Am I on the right track here? I'm pretty lost. Let me know if more info is needed.

Bruce Jamieson · 02-05-2009, 01:46 PM

Also, I tried

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yum clean

but I get a very similar error:

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Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Config Error: File contains parsing errors: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
	[line  7]: EOF

PTrenholme · 02-05-2009, 02:14 PM

Well, remove the spurious, unrecognized, EOF from the last line of the file.

By the way, I thought atrpms had been merged into the rpm-fusion repositories, and that there was nothing in the atrpms site for Fedorda 10.

colucix · 02-05-2009, 02:21 PM

You have to be root to edit the atrpms.repo file. Open a terminal and type

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su -

enter the root's password when prompted, then just

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cd /etc/yum.repos.d

if you know how to use vi, edit the file directly from the terminal, otherwise just launch a graphical editor, e.g.

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gedit atrpms.repo

The problem is that your current file lacks some fields. How did you installed this repo file? Does it come from a RPM? Anyway, it should look like this:

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name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1