[CentOS] yum errors

[Jim Perrin]

It should be looking at /6/ instead of a specific point release. We
(CentOS) do not provide updates for individual point releases. You are
several years behind in security and bug-fix updates. Once a specific
minor version is expired, it is moved off the main mirrors and into the
vault. The current iteration of the /6/ tree is 6.7, so everything below
that is no longer available on the mirrors. Have you modified your
repository files or are they stock?

I might suggest starting off with a 'yum clean all', then running your
query again.



On 11/20/2015 11:21 AM, Wes James wrote:
> I have inherited centos 6.3 and 6.2 vms in an esxi environment.  When I do
> 
> yum provides ntpd
> 
> on the 6.3 box I get a lot of errors like:
> 
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: mirror.unl.edu
>  * extras: mirrors.cmich.edu
>  * updates: mirror.steadfast.net
> http://mirror.unl.edu/centos/6.4/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404"
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.ash.fastserv.com/pub/linux/centos/6.4/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404"
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirrors.einstein.yu.edu/centos/6.4/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirrors.einstein.yu.edu/centos/6.4/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, 'connect() timed out!')
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirrors.versaweb.com/centos/6.4/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirrors.versaweb.com/centos/6.4/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, 'connect() timed out!')
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> Why am I getting these errors?  I installed 6.4 in virtualbox and the .repo files seem the same, except the 6.3 box didn’t have a fastback.repo file. 
> 
> Also why is it looking at 6.4 repos above?  When I see:
> 
> cat /etc/redhat-release 
> CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
> 
> i.e., this box is 6.3. Shouldn’t it be looking for 6.3 repo info?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -wes
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