[CentOS] Mirror failure

Phil Dobbin bukowskiscat at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 20:45:05 UTC 2013


On 14/08/13 21:35, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> I was getting:
>>
>> `http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirror01.th.ifl.net'"
>> Trying other mirror.
>> ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
>> 'ftp.mirrorservice.org'"
>> Trying other mirror.
>> ftp://ftp.fedora.is/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'ftp.fedora.is'"
>> Trying other mirror.
>> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'ftp.funet.fi'"
>> Trying other mirror.
>> ftp://mirrors.fedoraproject.org.uk/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
>> 'mirrors.fedoraproject.org.uk'"
>> Trying other mirror.
>> Error: failure:
>> repodata/c60f7c3ee6f9a4902d5ce9dd181a84ca684bba1a1df1c612702c7c6760a04645-filelists.sqlite.bz2
>> from epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>>    You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem`
>>
>> every time I ran `sudo yum update'. This happened on Fedora 17 also.
>> I've had to switch both machines to Ubuntu because I need working
>> machines.
>>
>> I've Googled this extensively & changed my nameservers, commented out
>> relevant lines in the configs, etc, etc but no luck so far. Ubuntu works
>> fine & I have no network problems (two HP ProCurves 2124s working
>> normally over the rest of the network: 17 machines).
>>
>> Is there a workaround for this as I need a working CentOS box.
> You *did* do yum clean all, correct?
>
>         
No. Was that all it took? Of the thousand answers found on Google that 
didn't work, that wasn't mentioned once.

If you could explain why that would work I'd be eternally grateful & all 
ears.

Cheers,

     Phil...

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