mirrorlist for Fedora 11

punt · 06-09-2009, 08:44 PM

Not sure what's up here -- I tried to upgrade to Fedora 11 using yum and the mirrorlist.txt file disappeared entirely.

Code:

# yum -y update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
 Eg. </metalink>/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/updates/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again

Anyone have a working mirrorlist I can use or have any idea what's going on here? Thanks.

billymayday · 06-09-2009, 08:49 PM

Probably hasn't propagated yet. i notice a lot of mirrors don't have the F11 iso's yet.

punt · 06-09-2009, 09:48 PM

Thanks - any idea what code I can use to update the mirrorlist when the time comes? I'm a bit afraid now that my mirrorlist file is completely missing.

billymayday · 06-09-2009, 09:58 PM

Probably "yum clean all" or similar

punt · 06-10-2009, 05:24 AM

hmmm - so when this propagates, are we sure it'll work?

My mirrorlist.txt file is still nonexistent.

ysun · 06-10-2009, 03:12 PM

I got a similar issue. It always says Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml). Using baseurl instead of mirrorlist, yum works ok. See mine as example

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

punt · 06-10-2009, 04:11 PM

I noticed that whenever I do "yum -y update", even if I put content in /var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt, it blanks out. What I mean here is that it's empty whenever I go back to vi and says it's a new file.

And then I get the error again:

Code:

# yum -y update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
 Eg. </metalink>/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

Why is mirrorlist.txt blanking out?!

punt · 06-11-2009, 12:52 PM

bump -- I really could use help. Thank you.

punt · 06-11-2009, 08:15 PM

I take it nobody else is having this issue? Is there ANYTHING I can do at all?

linus72 · 06-11-2009, 08:25 PM

Worst case scenario, you may have to install 11
is that an option for you?

billymayday · 06-11-2009, 08:43 PM

I strongly suspect that something has gone wrong in the upgrade process. This is why most people recommend a clean install where at all possible. I personally do a clean install because I've heard too many stories like this in regards to upgrades.

If a clean install is not an option, my suggestion to you would be to search the Fedora for fixes.

punt · 06-11-2009, 08:58 PM

linus, not easily -- an upgrade using yum would've been ideal. I've been doing doing this successfully via yum since ... erm, the early Fedora days. Never had a problem

Is there another type of upgrade I can try first? preupgrade? (I've never done it before.) Anything else?

billymayday, you mention "search the Fedora for fixes." I suppose you mean some Fedora forum. Where should I look?

Thanks and apologies for the questions -- like I said, this never happened before and it's a bit frustrating

billymayday · 06-11-2009, 09:31 PM

Sorry - I meant the Fedora site - that would include their wiki and forum

punt · 06-11-2009, 10:23 PM

Thanks -- good plan to check that out. I've been on LQ for so long that I didn't even consider the other communities.

ysun · 06-11-2009, 11:15 PM

See if my post on #6 helps you. It works for me. I would suggest you run https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mi...11&arch=x86_64 or https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mi...a-11&arch=i386 to find your mirror servers. Put your preferred mirror server as the base and comment out the mirrorlist line.