What does all this mean?

[Basil Chupin]

I just switched on the computer, smart updated the channels and showed 
that there were new upgrades, I started smart to do the upgrades and I 
got the following on the screen:


Traceback (most recent call last):

   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/interfaces/gtk/command.py", line 
45, in run
     result = GtkInterface.run(self, command, argv)

   File 
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interfaces/gtk/interface.py", 
line 45, in run
     result = Interface.run(self, command, 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

Now all smart does is give me this message everytime I run it to do the 
upgrades :-( .

What does the above mean, what is wrong and how to overcome the problem?

Cheers.



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