Description of problem: As of this week, all the yum mirrors for Fedora Core 3 - x86_64 are missing the repomd.xml files needed by yum. Even the link on the main page of Fedora Extras' web site is broken for x86_64. This was working a couple weeks ago. Error from yum check-update: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/3/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras failure: repodata/repomd.xml from extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Content of my extras.repo file: [extras] name=Fedora Extras baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum --version 2.2.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run yum update 2. 3. Actual results: fails to read FC3 Extras repo data Expected results: should find and read repoml.xml Additional info:
repo was damaged. fixed.