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Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora with yum after Fedora 15 upgrade

I upgraded an Intel Core 2 Duo system to the 64-bit version of Fedora 15, and now yum will not work properly.

Quote:

yum repolist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

What can be done to resolve these issues so that yum can update the system?

Hello,

I have come across many users getting this error after upgrading. Have you checked your system wide proxy settings? That is the biggest issue when it comes to this error. Have a look here - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=224988 and here also - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=266923

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Josh

I think I already saw one of those posting when I researched the problem before posting. Niether one of them seem to mention how to change any proxy settings that I could tell. I don't believe I'm using a proxy server or anything like that, so I'm not sure that is my problem. If it is, I am not sure how someone is supposed to modify their settings and what changes they need to make.

Have a look at your yum.conf configuration within /etc/ and make sure that the proxy settings don't have anything different than the settings in the system wide proxy settings, located within your preferences.

Here's the contents of my yum.conf file:

Quote:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3

# This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
# It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

I don't see anything about proxy settings, so I'm not sure what insight this offers to the problem.

After staring at your configuration, I think I know what the problem is.... See where it says "Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora"? Well that's it right there - the fedora repository is "down"..... Can you post the contents of your fedora.repo file located within /etc/yum.repos.d/ for me?

I'm not sure my problem is that the fedora repository is down. I have another Intel system I also upgraded to Fedora 15, and it looks like it can access the repository fine. This is the output I get on that system when I execute yum repolist:

Quote:

Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db | 163 kB 00:01
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db | 59 kB 00:01
Could not get metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/me...-f15&arch=i386 error was
14: curl#6 - "Couldn't resolve host"
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-i386 Adobe Systems Incorporated 18
fedora Fedora 15 - i386 19,365
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 - Free 370
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 - Free - Updates 292
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 - Nonfree 160
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 - Nonfree - Updates 145
updates Fedora 15 - i386 - Updates 3,535
repolist: 23,885

This is what I get when I execute yum repolist on the system with the problem:

Quote:

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db | 50 kB 00:00
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

One difference is that the system that seems to works is 32-bit and the system with the problem is 64-bit. I don't know how significant that is. I checked and both machines have the same fedora.repo file, so I'm not sure there's any problem with that file. Here are the contents of the fedora.repo file:

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[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

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

I wasn't meaning that it was actually down, just that your configuration might have been jacked. I did notice something else though.... Try manually switching mirrors before you go any further, I had a very similar problem a while back, and that was the fix to change mirrors.

It looks like I was able to get things to work by added the following line to /etc/hosts:
80.239.156.215 mirrors.fedoraproject.org

Glad to hear you have resolved your issue. Please mark your thread as solved if you can, thanks!