Problem with "yum update" and the macromedia mirror

Iltbreg · 06-18-2006, 08:55 PM

Hi everyone!

I've never had any problem with yum before but today when I did yum update this is what I got:

Quote:

[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/5]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [2/5]
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
freshrpms [3/5]
freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
macromedia [4/5]
http://macromedia.rediris.es/rpm/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: macromedia
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from macromedia: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from macromedia: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

And I got the same message when I tried to open Yumex.

Is it just because the macromedia server is temporarily down or if it's something more serious?

Thank you for your time.

Iltbreg · 06-18-2006, 09:24 PM

Hi, it's me again.

Please forget I said anything. I solved my problem. Everything works fine now. Case closed.

I apologize for this useless thread I started.

lporshe · 08-03-2006, 07:35 PM

I am getting the same exact problem....How did you resolve it?

Thanks!

Iltbreg · 08-04-2006, 02:09 PM

Hi lporshe!

There are actually 2 ways of solving the problem.

The first one is to do your update another day, hoping that the macromedia mirror will be functional.

The second (the one I used) is to exclude this mirror when you update. All you have to do is:
yum --disablerepo macromedia update.

lporshe · 08-04-2006, 04:56 PM

I thought about doing just that, but thought I would wait for someone's actual answer.

Thanks for getting back quickly on this. It seems to be doing what it supposed to now!

Iltbreg · 08-04-2006, 08:57 PM

You're welcome.