Error Message on updating cache

[Christoph Thiel]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Jan Landert wrote:

> I'm using Smart 0.42 with opensuse 10.1 on my hp nx8220 notebook. I has 
> doing its job fantasticly for a while but recently I got an error 
> message every time it tries to update the cache and I cannot use it 
> anymore. I don't know what to do - here is the error/ traceback message:
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   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/interactive.py", 
> line 364, in run
>     self._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
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

rm -rf /var/lib/smart/cache
rm -rf /var/lib/smart/channels/*
smart update


Regards
	Christoph