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 So same problem.