[Yum] failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 21:45:29 UTC 2006


2006/3/8, siddharth seth <sidharth.seth at gmail.com>:
> Hi all
>
> I continue getting this error with all the repos (livna, freshrpms, dries,
> fedora-updates etc.), most of the time.
>
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: <repo-name>
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from <repo-name>: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
> to try.
> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from <repo-name>: [Errno 256] No more
> mirrors to try.
>
> I am using FC4 (i386) and yum version 2.4.1
>
> I have tried googling on this but couldnt get a solution any where.
>
> I am not using any proxy and connect directly to internet and have disabled
> iptables and SElinux. I use an external router (DLink DSL 502 T), which is
> not blocking any ports.
>
> The base URLs given in the repo files are correct and I can open them up in
> firefox. All URLs invariably have repodata folder with a repomd.xml file
> which is accesible and downloadable via firefox. Having said that why doesnt
> yum open/read this file. Sadly its the same story for all the repos most of
> the time.  Sometimes I am able to do check-update  but then cannot update
> ... yum  goes into suspension while downloading the headers for selected
> packages.
>
> I have also set up high time out times (90sec instead of 30 sec) and have
> also set  "keep alive" option in yum.conf to accomodate any slowness in the
> internet connection. Still no sucess.
>
> Help needed urgently.
>
> Thanks beforehands.
>
> --
> Siddharth Seth
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>
Have a look to your nsswitch.conf file.
I guess that you cannot get same file also by wget...please confirm.
There is a thread some days ago here and I solved same problem!!! Please report

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Antonio Montagnani
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