Pirut - Problem

[cube1312]

Hi all,

I'm new here, and i vahe a big problem. I hope you can help me on this issue. Here is my errormessage, when want to start the Software installation/update tool on Fedora7:

Component: pirut
Summary: TB3e8fa63e yumRepo.py:765:_getRepoXML:RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 441, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 434, in main
pm = PackageManager(options.config, options.onlyrepo)
File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 61, in __init__
GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False, config)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 124, in __init__
self.reset()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 223, in reset
self.doTsSetup()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 63, in doTsSetup
return self._getTs()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 77, in _getTs
self._tsInfo.setDatabases(self.rpmdb, self.pkgSack)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 526, in <lambda>
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 381, in _getSacks
self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 242, in populateSack
sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 142, in populate
if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 199, in _check_db_version
if repo.repoXML.repoData.has_key(mdtype):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 769, in <lambda>
repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 765, in _getRepoXML
raise Errors.RepoError, msg
RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

Local variables in innermost frame:
msg: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
self: fedora
e: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: fedora


Thanks for yur help

in Advance.

Chris

[Mark Dzmura]

For the first time since I've been running F7, pirut has blown up on invocation - exact same symptoms as the creator of this thread.

Hopefully there is a manual procedure to recreate the metadata??

How did it get corrupted in the first place?

-Mark

[bob]

There are many threads with this problem (try searching 'metadata'). The best first attempt at cleaning things would be to open a terminal, sign in as root (su -) and then type "yum clean all". You can also check this thread: http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=169831

[Mark Dzmura]

Thanks, Bob... For the moment, I've started down another path, though.

I started trying to update pirut to the latest (as recommended by Katz@fedora) using yum directly.
I noted that the adobe repository appears to be broken, and this was preventing pirut from running.

So, I downloaded the new pirut... They fixed one problem, but the fix only goes so far...

Now, instead of crashing, pirut gives a graceful message that the adobe repository can't be contacted... but it still fails to run!

There doesn't seem to be a way to tell pirut to pass the --disablerepo="" switch down to yum.

[bob]

Just use gedit to change the 'enabled=1' to 'enabled=0' for adobe and it won't be included. BTW, mine's working as "adobe-linux-i386.repo" (Fedora7)

[adobe-linux-i386]
name=Adobe Systems Incorporated
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

[Mark Dzmura]

OK, that fixed it...!

So, the adobe repository appeared to be hosed. Reading on about yum, I saw that I could disable the adobe repository as follows:

Edit the file /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo

Change
enabled=1
to
enabled=0

Now pirut runs...

[bob]

Good for you. As info, I just checked and adobe's borked for me for the moment. I used the 'yum --disablerepo=adobe-linux-i386' and that bypassed it for that one update. Since this is the first bork for adobe, I'd give it a couple of days and try "yum --enablerepo=adobe-linux-i386" and see if it works. If so, you can simply use gedit to change the enabled=0 back to enabled=1.

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by bob

Good for you. As info, I just checked and adobe's borked for me for the moment. I used the 'yum --disablerepo=adobe-linux-i386' and that bypassed it for that one update. Since this is the first bork for adobe, I'd give it a couple of days and try "yum --enablerepo=adobe-linux-i386" and see if it works. If so, you can simply use gedit to change the enabled=0 back to enabled=1.

Adobe is down here as well ( I think I will just erase the adobe repo altogether as it is crap [ always going down ] and only provides flash anyway which I can manually update myself )