On 20/06/15 11:21, Peter wrote: > On 06/20/2015 01:17 PM, david wrote: >> After years of working just-fine, I have an automated script that >> manages yum for me at initial install time. Sometime within the last 48 >> hours, I get the error message >> >> http://mirror.nexcess.net/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] >> repomd.xml does not match metalink for epel > > EPEL is having network problems right now. A workaround is to comment > out mirrorlist in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and add a baseurl line > pointing to a known good mirror. > Further, EPEL is provided by Fedora. Fedora's mirror system is currently having hiccups. http://status.fedoraproject.org/ I dropped by their admin IRC and it'd seem they have some network issues that they hope to have fixed by the end of the weekend. HTH, Pete.