Mirrors problem

[axet]

[axet@axet-laptop rpm]$ up
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink | 13 kB 00:01
Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=x86_64 error was
File /var/cache/yum/x86_64/$releasever/fedora/metalink.xml.tmp is not XML
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
[axet@axet-laptop rpm]$

---------- Post added at 03:19 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 03:18 AM CST ----------

try to do:

yum clean all
yum update

[Gödel]

what's up?

[axet]

noting is changed.

[diamond_ramsey]

I think there is/are will be major outages of the systems due to a datacenter movement. Possibly this is the reason, see following -

"..."A reminder for those who don't read the link, we'll be having a massive outage of many Fedora services this weekend while we are moving our servers to a new location."

Services that will be down

* Buildsystem
* CVS
* Wiki
* MirrorManager
* translate.fedoraproject.org
* Mail lists
* Primary mirrors at download.fedora.redhat.com

Read more at: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infr...re/ticket/1845

Contact Information:

#fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net..."

From https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infr...re/ticket/1845 -

"...Timing

Starting on December 12th we will start powering hosts down. We're expecting to bring services back online starting on the 13th but may not be completely done until December 15th...."

Hope this helps.

[axet]

Hmm, not really, but thanks.

Can you recommend good irc client for Fedora?

[diamond_ramsey]

Originally Posted by axet

...Can you recommend good irc client for Fedora?

axet, try Pidgin -

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/

http://www.pidgin.im/

This software is used by some of the Fedora people.

[axet]

tried, not so good;
xchat, xchat-gnome either bad.

[diamond_ramsey]

Originally Posted by axet

...Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=x86_64 error was
File /var/cache/yum/x86_64/$releasever/fedora/metalink.xml.tmp is not XML
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again...

axet, could you do the following command:

yum repolist

[axet]

[axet@axet-laptop ~]$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386 17/17
fedora/metalink | 13 kB 00:00
Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=x86_64 error was
File /var/tmp/yum-axet-y1K2SP/x86_64/$releasever/fedora/metalink.xml.tmp is not XML
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled: 17
fedora Fedora $releasever - x86_64 enabled: 0
google-chrome google-chrome enabled: 0
playonlinux PlayOnLinux Official repo enabled: 0
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free enabled: 0
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free - Updates enabled: 0
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Nonfree enabled: 0
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Nonfree - Updates enabled: 0
updates Fedora $releasever - x86_64 - Updates enabled: 0
repolist: 17
[axet@axet-laptop ~]$

---------- Post added at 03:42 AM CST ---------- Previous post was Yesterday at 11:10 PM CST ----------

this is a bug, somewhere in yum:

[axet@axet-laptop yum.repos.d]$ ll /var/cache/yum/x86_64
total 4
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 2009-12-12 14:41 $releasever
[axet@axet-laptop yum.repos.d]$

---------- Post added at 09:20 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 03:42 AM CST ----------

i fixed that by reinstalling fedora-release from official repo.. i have no idea who broke it!!