yum update or install problems.

td-tg · #1 26th January 2009, 07:23 PM

Greetings !!!

First, I am a beginner in Linux and I decide to quit on windows and I start with fedora,now I have a small problem with yum, when I try to update or to install any program using yum, I have those errors at the end:
yum repolist
Loaded plugins: presto, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
No Presto metadata available for skype
No Presto metadata available for fedora
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-free-updates
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-free
No Presto metadata available for updates
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-nonfree
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ____________________
yum -y update
Loaded plugins: presto, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
skype | 951 B 00:00
No Presto metadata available for skype
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
No Presto metadata available for fedora
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-free-updates
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
rpmfusion-free | 2.7 kB 00:00
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-free
No Presto metadata available for updates
rpmfusion-nonfree | 2.7 kB 00:00
No Presto metadata available for rpmfusion-nonfree
skype 1/1
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again
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yum.repos.d]# ls
adobe-linux-i386.repo fedora-updates.repo rpmfusion-free-updates.repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
adobe-linux-i386.repo~ fedora-updates.repo~ rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo skype.repo
atrpms.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
fedora-rawhide.repo rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
fedora.repo rpmfusion-free.repo rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
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# rpm -qa | grep release
adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
rpmfusion-free-release-10-1.noarch
fedora-release-notes-10.0.0-1.noarch
flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386
fedora-release-10-1.noarch
isorelax-0-0.2.release20050331.fc10.noarch
rpmfusion-nonfree-release-10-1.noarch
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ____________________
# uname -a
Linux Vinny.fc 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 14:59:37 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I did those yum clean dbcache, yum clean metadata, yum clean all, yum makecache, and i got the same error at the end.
"Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again"

Thank you in advance to everyone for help.

newiLuvatar · #2 26th January 2009, 08:08 PM

i'm no expert, but try disabling presto and protectbase plugins, e.g.

Code:

yum --disableplugin=presto --disableplugin=protectbase update

or uninstall them...

td-tg · #3 26th January 2009, 08:38 PM

Don't work, all the time I get the same error "Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again", any other sugestions ? Thanks

JohnVV · #4 26th January 2009, 08:46 PM

from

Code:

yum --help
rpm --help
-- try --
yum --noplugins clean all
rpm --rebuilddb 
yum --noplugins  update

and if that dose not work remove those yum plugins "presto "and " protectbase" cause nothing BUT TROUBLE

Code:

yum erase yum-presto yum-protectbase

and if this dose not work then we will need the output of

Code:

yum repolist

to see what is on and what is off

td-tg · #5 26th January 2009, 09:02 PM

Well now is out but I still have a problem:
# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again
# yum -y update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again

What else should I do. THX

td-tg · #6 26th January 2009, 09:04 PM

And here is:
Loaded plugins: presto, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum-protectbase.noarch 0:1.1.18-2.fc10 set to be erased
---> Package yum-presto.noarch 0:0.4.5-1.fc9 set to be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ================================================== =========================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================== ================================================== =========================================
Removing:
yum-presto noarch 0.4.5-1.fc9 installed 52 k
yum-protectbase noarch 1.1.18-2.fc10 installed 2.3 k

Transaction Summary
================================================== ================================================== =========================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 2 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
================================================== =========== Entering rpm code ================================================== ===========
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Erasing : yum-presto 1/2
warning: /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/presto.conf saved as /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/presto.conf.rpmsave
Erasing : yum-protectbase 2/2
warning: /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/protectbase.conf saved as /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/protectbase.conf.rpmsave
================================================== =========== Leaving rpm code ================================================== ============

Removed:
yum-presto.noarch 0:0.4.5-1.fc9 yum-protectbase.noarch 0:1.1.18-2.fc10

Complete!

td-tg · #7 26th January 2009, 11:00 PM

Can I get more suggestion what should I do next ? I don't have any idea how to fix this problem. THX

JohnVV · #8 26th January 2009, 11:13 PM

do these work

Code:

su -
rpm --rebuilddb

that will take about 5 min. to run
then

Code:

yum repolist

you might need to download and reinstall yum
using "rpm" to install
sometimes those plugins can really mess things up
or edit every yum/packagekit file to put them back to there original values .

td-tg · #9 27th January 2009, 12:07 AM

It is the same error:
yum repolist
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
skype | 951 B 00:00
fedora | 2.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free | 2.7 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again

What else? THX.

JohnVV · #10 27th January 2009, 02:20 AM

well it looks like adobe it doing it again. adobe-linux repo.Adobe has a bad habit of having a lot of down time on there server.
now with those two plugins uninstalled you can use the " disablerepo " option

Code:

yum --disablerepo=adobe-linux update

and if that dose not do it try adding "skype" to the disable list
yum --disablerepo=adobe-linux --disablerepo=skype update