WinRPM doesn't build: Cannot parse XML file

General Usage
1

Some time ago I successfully installed the WinRPM.
I recently ran into trouble with some packages and decided to wipe the package dir v0.5. Since then, I cannot install the WinRPM package (which I need for the HDF5 package):

julia> Pkg.build("WinRPM")
INFO: Building WinRPM
=============================================================================[ ERROR: WinRPM ]==============================================================================

LoadError: LoadError: InitError: "ErrorException(\"Error parsing document : 0\"), not well-formed (invalid token), 1, 9865, 9865"
during initialization of module WinRPM
while loading C:\Users\<user>\.julia\v0.5\WinRPM\src\WinRPM.jl, in expression starting on line 515
while loading C:\Users\<user>\.julia\v0.5\WinRPM\deps\build.jl, in expression starting on line 1

============================================================================================================================================================================

==============================================================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]==============================================================================

WARNING: WinRPM had build errors.

 - packages with build errors remain installed in C:\Users\<user>\.julia\v0.5
 - build the package(s) and all dependencies with `Pkg.build("WinRPM")`
 - build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script

============================================================================================================================================================================

Apparently, the first error occurs when parsing the file https://cache.julialang.org/http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win64/openSUSE_42.2/repodata/repomd.xml with LibExpat.xp_parse.
Was this XML file changed recently?

My computer info:

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.5.2
Commit f4c6c9d (2017-05-06 16:34 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Haswell)
  LAPACK: libopenblas64_
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.7.1 (ORCJIT, broadwell)
2

When was the last time you ran Pkg.update() ? Do you have any local modifications to that package listed in Pkg.status() ?

3

I’ve just looked at the problem again and realized that you tagged a new version 7 days ago – a few days after my post. I’ll try to update now.

4

Ah right, the edit made this show up in the /latest listing as if it were more recent than it actually was.

5

Actually, I’m still getting the same error even with the new XML from the updated openSUSE URL

I deleted ~/julia/v0.5 and ran Pkg.add("WinRPM") as the first command.

INFO: Building WinRPM
WARNING: skipping repodata/repomd.xml, not in cache -- call WinRPM.update() to download
WARNING: skipping repodata/repomd.xml, not in cache -- call WinRPM.update() to download
INFO: Downloading https://cache.julialang.org/http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/repodata/repomd.xml
===================================================[ ERROR: WinRPM ]====================================================

LoadError: "ErrorException(\"Error parsing document : 0\"), not well-formed (invalid token), 1, 9865, 9865"
while loading C:\Users\robert\.julia\v0.5\WinRPM\deps\build.jl, in expression starting on line 2

========================================================================================================================

====================================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]====================================================

WARNING: WinRPM had build errors.

 - packages with build errors remain installed in C:\Users\robert\.julia\v0.5
 - build the package(s) and all dependencies with `Pkg.build("WinRPM")`
 - build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script

========================================================================================================================
INFO: Package database updated
6

Anybody experiencing the same problem?
I get this error even on a computer with a freshly installed Windows where Julia is the first program I install…

7

Yes see windows 32 (\"Error parsing document : 0\"), no element found, 1, 1, 0" · Issue #104 · JuliaPackaging/WinRPM.jl · GitHub

Do you have reproducible test case that always throws that error? For me it shows up intermittently and thus hard to track the exact source of the problem.

8

It shows up every time for me – ever since I commented on that issue :slight_smile:

9

I finally resolved the problem by deleting the entire ~\.julia folder… Just deleting e.g. ~\.julia\v0.5 wasn’t sufficient.