This problem was caused by stupid user error - meaning I copied the wrong URL when configuring a new repo and munged things really good. I pasted in a URL that was to a normal website instead of the URL to the LibreOffice Factory repo. I didn't notice until after I had applied and YaST tried to update from that repo. I edited it, removed the wrong repo and added right repo. Everything seemed OK... I can install from that reconfigured LibreOffice Factory repo just fine etc, but somewhere in the system, it's hanging on to the wrong repo info and I can't find it to fix it. This is the output from zypper (the error prevents me from installing/removing rpms): --------------- zypper in anyname.rpm Repository named '_tmpRPMcache_' already exists. Please use another alias. Refreshing service 'LibreOffice Factory'. Unexpected exception. Parse error: repoindex.xml[8] Couldn't find end of Start Tag meta History: - repoindex.xml[8] attributes construct error - repoindex.xml[8] Unescaped '<' not allowed in attributes values Please file a bug report about this. See http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Troubleshooting for instructions. --------------- The error makes sense since it's trying to parse a normal website for YaST repo info... and it finds regular HTML instead. YaST gives a little more info: --------------- An error occurred during repository initialization. Error refreshing service LibreOffice Factory (http://the.mistyped.url/that/isnt/a/repo/): Parse error: repoindex.xml[8] Couldn't find end of Start Tag meta History: - repoindex.xml[8] attributes construct error - repoindex.xml[8] Unescaped '<' not allowed in attributes values --------------- zypper repos -d shows all my configured repos including the LibreOffice Factory repo that is the source of the problem: --------------- 4 | LibreOffice_Factory | LibreOffice Factory | No | No | 80 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Factory/openSUSE_13.1... --------------- If I look into /etc/zypp/repos.d/LibreOffice_Factory.repo, everything is correct, and there's no sign of the misconfigured repo anywhere. I've checked all other dot repo files and they are all fin as far as I can see. There is no double file for LibreOffice.. and no other repo that looks like LibreOffice in my repo list. (I'd susepaste.org it, but... when I do that it returns an error "You are spammer!!!" so... ) So... anyone have any ideas how I can convince zypper/YaST to forget about that wrong URL?... so I can use zypper again... C -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.12 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org