[CentOS] (yum) Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)....

Wed Sep 21 17:03:25 UTC 2011
ken <gebser at mousecar.com>

Cool++.  That fixed it.  (Thanks much.)

And now I have an example of something meant to fix problems causing 
problems.  :)


On 09/21/2011 12:05 PM lists-centos wrote:
> 
> ------------ Original Message ------------
>> Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:52:11 AM -0400
>> From: ken <gebser at mousecar.com>
>>
>> On 09/21/2011 11:45 AM lists-centos wrote:
>>> ------------ Original Message ------------
>>>> Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:27:44 AM -0400
>>>> From: ken <gebser at mousecar.com>
>>>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
>>>>
>>>> This error:
>>>>
>>>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
>>>> repository:  debug. Please verify its path and try again
>>>>
>>>> occurs every time I run yum (and is where execution stops).  Why?
>>>> and/or  What can be done to fix yum so I can use it again?
>>>>
>>> Have you tried:
>>>
>>>    yum clean all
>>>
>>> then:
>>>
>>>    yum check-update
>>>
>>>   
>>>       - Richard
>> yum check-update yields:
>>
>> http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] 
>> IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
>> Trying other mirror.
>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
>> repository:  debug. Please verify its path and try again
>>
> 
> disable the debuginfo repository, either on the yum command line, or
> better, in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory. it's not enabled by
> default, and i suspect you don't need it, at least not at this stage.
> 
> 
>   - Richard
> 
>