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[Ashish Yadav]

Hi,

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Ravi Roy <ravi.aroy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> i've CentOS 6.6 (Final) 64 bit version installed and I can not access the
> online repositories to install/update (pls see eror below the error),  I
> tried to google this error I get a lot of links but nothing I could  really
> solving this  issue. I've already disabled ipv6 and also defined proxy in
> /etc/yum.conf.
>
> [root at myhost ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
> Setting up Update Process
> Determining fastest mirrors
>  * c6-media:
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno
> 12]
> Timeout on http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
> :
> (28, 'connect() timed out!')
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
> base. Please verify its path and try again
>

Have you tried "yum clean all" then "yum update"?


>
> If I try to use 'wget' to get 'repomd.xml' then it works fine.
>
> [root at myhost ~]# wget
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
> --2015-03-09 20:05:03--
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
> Connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx:80... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 3751 (3.7K) [text/xml]
> Saving to: “repomd.xml”
>
>
> 100%[===============================================================================================================================================>]
> 3,751       --.-K/s   in 0s
>
> 2015-03-09 20:05:03 (14.6 MB/s) - “repomd.xml” saved [3751/3751]
>
> Has anybody experienced this kind of beahviour and got it working ?
>
> Thank you in advance for pointers.
>
> Regards
> Ravi.
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--Regards
Ashishkumar S. Yadav