[CentOS] yum errors

Fri Nov 20 17:47:29 UTC 2015
Wes James <comptekki at me.com>

> On Nov 20, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?

Not sure.  I’m investigating now.  Compared the /etc/yum.repos.d so far and that’s about it.

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

OK Thanks.  I try that. 

> 
> 
> 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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