F11 - Yum Problems after PreUpgrade

[CraigWatson]

Hey everyone,
Having some problems running yum after doing a preupgrade from F10 to Rawhide. Yum worked perfectly in F10, but now reports metalink.xml errors and timeouts depending on the config.

My setup is a local Squid proxy, authenticating to an MS ISA proxy. Squid is working file as I have Firefox and Pidgin running through it as well as a few external machines. Local proxy settings are all pointed to 127.0.0.1, port 8080, both in the GUI setup and terminal environment variables:

[root@khashoggi ~]# echo $http_proxy
http://127.0.0.1:8080

With no changes to the yum.conf file, yum hangs on "Determining fastest mirrors" (I have yum-fastestmirror installed). With "proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8080" in the yum.conf file, I get:

[root@khashoggi ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
fedora/metalink                                          |   15 B     00:00     
Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-11&arch=x86_64 error was 
No repomd file
Error: File /var/cache/yum/fedora/metalink.xml does not exist

Just wondering if it could be a bug with this version of yum and proxying? I can't even do a "yum repolist", as it times out there as well. Here are the repos I have installed:

[root@khashoggi ~]# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  179 2007-07-25 21:45 /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1785 2009-05-11 23:45 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1144 2009-05-11 23:45 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1105 2009-05-11 23:45 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1163 2009-05-11 23:45 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1301 2009-05-17 16:16 /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1076 2009-03-26 12:35 /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1131 2009-03-26 12:34 /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1260 2009-05-17 16:16 /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1355 2009-05-17 16:20 /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1247 2009-05-17 16:20 /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1245 2009-05-17 16:20 /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1305 2009-05-17 16:20 /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo

[root@khashoggi ~]# grep enabled=1 /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo:enabled=1

Apart from that, all working fine

[CraigWatson]

OK, I have the problem - it was weirdly my local Squid server.

Once I'd set up another Squid server going directly out to the Internet rather than through our MS ISA proxy, yum picked up the files. I'm not entirely sure what yum was complaining about though - as far as I know, yum was using the same setting as every other program I've got going through the local Squid.

Either way, it wasn't F11's fault, so problem solved