> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Alan McKay > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:36 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me? > > This is very strange - has been happening the last few days. I just > upgraded this system from 5.3 to 5.7 on Monday and the problem started > some > time after that (but not immediately because I know I used yum Monday > evening after the upgrade) > > I get the following error from yum, but it goes away if I -- > disablerepo=epel > > The funny thing is that the listed xml file I can easily wget from this > system. > You mean in the terminal on solexa-db you just issued the yum install in, you can issue as the next command wget http://fedora.mirror.nexicom.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml and it gets the xml file? > Also having the issue with other 5.7 systems that were upgraded from > 5.3 > several weeks ago and had been working fine since. <SNIP yum and rpm cleans> > > [root at solexa-db varlog]# yum -y install hddtemp > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, rhnplugin, security > http://fedora.mirror.nexicom.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno > 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')> > Trying other mirror. > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: > epel. Please verify its path and try again It seems a bit strange to me that there is only one mirror tried... As a quick temporary fix/test I would comment mirrorlist and uncomment baseurl in epel.repo and see if the yum command worked. BTW it seems solexa-db may be a RH machine instead of a CentOS machine. see the rhnplugin get loaded? Could that be a difference between the working and non working machines (granted I have not seen any problems with RH machines and epel)? I think it might be good to take this question over to epel-devel (AFAIK the appropriate list) and see if they can help figure out why you are having trouble with THEIR infrastructure. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list