Yum repomd.xml problem

[OOOOO]

Hello,

I have just upgraded one of my computers from F10 to F11 and I have a slight problem with yum in that yum update give mes the following message:

Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error [Errno 2] No such file or directory>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

I have had a look on Google and the forum for solutions but none have worked so far.

My fedora.repo file looks like

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

and my /etc/hosts looks like

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost.localdomain	localhost	
80.239.156.215	mirrors.fedoraproject.org
213.129.242.84  mirrors.rpmfusion.org

Thanks in advance!!!

[CSchwangler]

My /etc/hosts from a fresh F11 install looks like this:

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

Maybe you could try and temporarily remove your entries and see if that works.

[OOOOO]

Hi,

Thanks for your response. The reason that my /etc/hosts looks like that is that I edited it as suggested at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=223472 - I have just tried removing those lines and it makes no difference

[CSchwangler]

In your fedora.repo file you commented out the mirrorlist entry, which points to mirrors.fedoraproject.org. So if your problem is related to an issue with DNS like in the post you are referring to, then how could that work with the changed /etc/hosts file (this points to mirrors.fedoraproject.org).
So if you are facing DNS problems and need the changes in /etc/hosts I would then try to uncomment the mirrorlist in the fedora.repo file. You probably have to place comments before the bareurl entries.

[wvugrad00]

I am experiencing the same problem with yum and the XML
I have also posted my information in this thread
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=224374

This cropped up earlier in the week for no reason, I did not make any changes to any of my config files

[sdlor]

I am experiencing the same problem with yum and the XML
I have also posted my information in this thread
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=224374

This cropped up earlier in the week for no reason, I did not make any changes to any of my config files

Just exactly what is "the XML"? What is meant by "the XML"?

[OOOOO]

In your fedora.repo file you commented out the mirrorlist entry, which points to mirrors.fedoraproject.org. So if your problem is related to an issue with DNS like in the post you are referring to, then how could that work with the changed /etc/hosts file (this points to mirrors.fedoraproject.org).
So if you are facing DNS problems and need the changes in /etc/hosts I would then try to uncomment the mirrorlist in the fedora.repo file. You probably have to place comments before the bareurl entries.

This is true - the reason for it is that this article suggests that will fix the problem. When I do uncomment and recomment as you suggest I get the errors described in the aforementioned article

[OOOOO]

Just exactly what is "the XML"? What is meant by "the XML"?

I think he is referring to the repomd.xml file which yum cannot download for the Fedora repository

[wvugrad00]

Just exactly what is "the XML"? What is meant by "the XML"?

Sorry for the confusion, here is the xml error that is being returned from yumex, and when attempting to download the latest repository

root@localhost]# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://poptop.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/mirrorlist-poptop-stable-fc11 error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: poptop-stable. Please verify its path and try again

[OOOOO]

SOLVED: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=186080 - follow instructions on last post

[wvugrad00]

I tried your solution, but I am unable to locate the file /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew to copy to /etc/nsswitch.conf

I did find something else about configuring the fedora.repo file, and make sure the baseurl is correct. I added
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/
as the baseurl, and commented out the mirror list, and left the original baseurl commented out.
Now I am receiving this error when attempting a yum update

Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://poptop.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/mirrorlist-poptop-stable-fc11 error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: poptop-stable. Please verify its path and try again

When I attempt to go to that web-page sure enough within the /yum/stable directory the mirror list for fc11 does not exist, but all other releases of fedora exist. Is there something else I should configure?

I apologize for hijacking the thread, if people would like I can create a new thread on this matter since the original issue has been resolved

[wvn]

Are you using a proxy? I get this error when i use my proxy.

[wvugrad00]

No I do not have a proxy set up on my system. I have emailed myself the fedora.repo from my fedora 10 box here at work. I will copy over that information to the fedora 11 box at home if it is any different and see what happens

[OOOOO]

It seems to be due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756