Bug 459745

Summary: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim McConnell <timothy.mcconnell>
Component: yumAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8CC: ffesti, james.antill, katzj, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description Tim McConnell 2008-08-21 19:53:10 UTC
Created attachment 314744 [details]
fedora.repo file from system 

Description of problem:Yum cannot perform updates since infrastructure issue 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2.8


How reproducible:
run 'yum update' or launch yumex or software updater

Steps to Reproduce:
1. attempt to update system 
2. let yum run 
3. receive error message
  
Actual results:
can't update system 

Expected results:
to be able to update system 

Additional info:
I have run the following commands and it still fails: 
yum clean all 
yum clean metadata
yum clean dbcache
yum --noplugins update
rpm -U --oldpackage --replacefiles fedora-release-8-5.noarch.rpm
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm -vv --rebuilddb

Actual output of failed yum command: 
yum -y update
livna                                                 | 2.1 kB     00:00     
livna-debuginfo                                       | 1.9 kB     00:00     
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

Comment 1 Tim McConnell 2008-08-24 19:10:18 UTC
This can be closed found a incorrect URL for the mirrors list (it had an 8 in it that wasn't supposed to be there)