rpm-fusion ... Solved

[Pete333]

Hi all,

I did a yum update yesterday and it updated rpm-fusion-* and now whenever I use yum to update or install anything, I got these:

# yum -y update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
livna | 2.1 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 | 4.3 kB 00:00
skype | 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz | 1.3 kB 00:00
skype 1/1
fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 | 6.1 MB 02:44
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free-updates. Please verify its path and try again

. ...I tried disabling rpm-fusion-* repos, but it doesn't change anything. ...any idea on how to fix this?

remember not to use the -y switch .. only Use it when you know what your gonna be updating, ..what if you disable skype repo?

[Pete333]

Originally Posted by Demz

remember not to use the -y switch .. only Use it when you know what your gonna be updating, ..what if you disable skype repo?

Thanks for the quick reply. ..I tried your suggestion:

# yum --disablerepo=skype update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
livna | 2.1 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 | 4.3 kB 00:00
fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 | 6.1 MB 03:29
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free-updates. Please verify its path and try again

. ...same thing.

what if you do this yum clean metadata then yum clean dbcache

[Pete333]

Originally Posted by Demz

what if you do this yum clean metadata then yum clean dbcache

sorry, ...same result:

[root@***]# yum clean metadata
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
5 metadata files removed
2 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed
[root@***]# yum clean dbcache
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
0 sqlite files removed
[root@***]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
livna | 2.1 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 | 4.3 kB 00:00
skype | 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz | 1.3 kB 00:00
skype 1/1
fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 | 6.1 MB 04:05
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free-updates. Please verify its path and try again

[n3t]

A lot of times on fc8 i had to go into the yum repos via cmd line and manually uncomment other mirrors for something work. I don't know why this happened but it did. It was the same problem. You could check the mirrors and look around to see if everything looks ok.

[Pete333]

I tried to experiment by doing this:

[root@*** yum.repos.d]# mv rpmfusion-free-updates.repo rpmfusion-free-updates.M
[root@*** yum.repos.d]# cd /tmp
[root@*** tmp]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
skype | 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz | 1.3 kB 00:00
skype 1/1
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-nonfree-updates. Please verify its path and try again


. ...if you notice, now the problem change to "rpmfusion-nonfree-updates" ..whereas before its "rpmfusion-free-updates" ..and since it seems that you guys doesn't experience this problem, then I guess all the rpmfusion mirrors were all on-line.

[al_chem]

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem. I removed rpmfusion repositories from /etc/yum.repos.d/, reinstalled them like this:

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

and it did find and install updates. Among the updates that got pulled in were newer (current) versions of the two repos which caused the problem to reappear.

[marcrblevins]

Tried 'yum --noplugins update'?

[n3t]

Since mine are fine i'm going to make a huge post and post the repos and you can check to see if yours are the same . Allthough, i use x86-64 so i don't know if it will matter. Like i said before i used to have this problem on fedora core 8 but it used to the the fedora repo and all i done was change some mirrors and fixed it.

[rpmfusion-free-updates]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free - Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/.mirrorlist-free-fedora-updates
failovermethod=roundrobin
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora

[rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free - Updates Debug
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=rpmfusion-free-updates-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora

[rpmfusion-free-updates-source]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free - Updates Source
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=rpmfusion-free-updates-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora

[rpmfusion-free]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/.mirrorlist-free-fedora-releases
failovermethod=roundrobin
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora

[rpmfusion-free-debuginfo]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free - Debug
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=rpmfusion-free-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora

[rpmfusion-free-source]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free - Source
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=rpmfusion-free-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora

[rpmfusion-nonfree]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Non-Free
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/.mirrorlist-nonfree-fedora-releases
failovermethod=roundrobin
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora

[rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Non-Free - Debug
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora

[rpmfusion-nonfree-source]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Non-Free - Source
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora

[rpmfusion-nonfree-updates]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Non-Free - Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/.mirrorlist-nonfree-fedora-updates
failovermethod=roundrobin
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora

[rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Non-Free - Updates Debug
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora

[rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-source]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Non-Free - Updates Source
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora

See where is says baseurl on the repos? Just uncomment that line and save it then try it again. 99% of the time it will fix that error.

[Pete333]

Thanks al_chem,

I removed all the rpmfusion-*.repo and yum updates resumed. ...my system is currently having an update while I type this message. ...included in the update is the new kernel-2.6.27.5-41. ...the question now is, do we really need rpmfusion-*.repos?

Originally Posted by n3t

See where is says baseurl on the repos? Just uncomment that line and save it then try it again. 99% of the time it will fix that error.

I've already tried that yesterday. ..it doesn't fix/change anything.

[JohnVV]

you might NOT want to use the "mv" command to rename a repo
THIS WILL BREAK THINGS
instead use
--------
yum --help
--------
you will find this
--disablerepo=
----
yum --disablerepo=rpmfusion update

but rpmfusion is needed if ANYTHING from there is installed

[Pete333]

just finished updating to the new kernel. ..I'm going to reboot my system to try the new kernel, and when everything is fine, I'll copy n3t rmpfusion repo's contents. ..since it doesn't seem to have any particular reference to x86-64.

[Pete333]

everything went fine. ...I've copied n3t rpmfusion repo's contents and replaced all the rpmfusion repos in my /etc/yum.repos.d/ and run yum update. ..and I'm happy to say that everything is back to normal now. ...Thanks a lot for all your help. ...I guess I could declare this case as "SOLVED!!!" ...

since its solved i will mark the thread as Solved