[CentOS] Question Mirrors ?

Fri Jun 23 19:31:58 UTC 2017
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Walter H. wrote:
> On 23.06.2017 17:02, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>>> On 23/06/17 12:22, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote:
>>>> Hello List,
>>>>
>>>> in the last weeks I have many, many Errors from chron hourly on my
>>>> systems :-
>>>> (.
>>>>
>>>> Have we broken or not updated mirrors in the yum config ?
>>> Can you give details please ? As per design there are *no* mirrors
>>> declared in the yum config files for CentOS, but they use the
>>> mirrorlist
>>> feature, that has all the current lists of mirrors that are
>>> validated/tested in loop
>> <snip>
>> Missed the beginning of this - has this been for a while, or just in the
>> last couple days? If so, do you have EPEL enabled? We had tons of
>> errors,
>> due to the error with them. Fixed by yesterday.
>>
> this isn't fixed ...
>
>   yum update
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
> Setting up Update Process
> Determining fastest mirrors
> epel/metalink
> |  14 kB     00:00
>   * base: centos.mirror.constant.com
>   * epel: archive.linux.duke.edu
>   * extras: centos.mirror.constant.com
>   * updates: centos.mirror.constant.com
> base
> | 3.7 kB     00:00
> base/primary_db
> | 4.7 MB     00:01
> epel
> | 4.3 kB     00:00
> http://archive.linux.duke.edu/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for epel
> Trying other mirror.
<snip>
Hey, they've gone onto a new and different error. We were getting "not a
valid .xml file.

Try yum clean all, then try it.

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