Description of problem: Component: Software Updater Exception Occurred: Summary: TBf3313d0f rhnplugin.py:222:_YumRepository__get:RepoError: failed to retrieve repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5 error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 668, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 664, in main pup.run() File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 499, in run self.doRefresh() File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 324, in doRefresh self.populateUpdates() File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 380, in populateUpdates self.updateMetadata.add(repo) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/update_md.py", line 228, in add md = obj.retrieveMD(mdtype) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 622, in retrieveMD cache=self.http_caching == 'all') File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 222, in _YumRepository__get raise yum.Errors.RepoError, \ RepoError: failed to retrieve repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5 error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Local variables in innermost frame: e: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum url: None text: None self: rhel-i386-server-5 cache: False reget: None relative: repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz start: None checkfunc: (<bound method RhnRepo.checkMD of <rhnplugin.RhnRepo object at 0xa001f6c>>, ('updateinfo',), {}) copy_local: 1 end: None local: //var/cache/yum/rhel-i386-server-5/updateinfo.xml.gz Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Applications -> System Tools -> Software Updater Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Package Updater was Retrieving Update Information when it raised the Exception Occurred message listed above. Expected results: Retrieve and install package updates. Additional info:
Created attachment 251441 [details] debug the same problem exists on my RedHat 5 x64
the same problem is showed in 370021 369901 and 250437
The original summary for this bug was longer than 255 characters, and so it was truncated when Bugzilla was upgraded. The original summary was: Summary: TBf3313d0f rhnplugin.py:222:_YumRepository__get:RepoError: failed to retrieve repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5 Summary: TBf3313d0f rhnplugin.py:222:_YumRepository__get:RepoError: failed to retrieve repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5 Component: Software Updater Summary: TBf3313d0f rhnplugin.py:222:_YumRepository__get:RepoError: failed to retrieve repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5 error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
I suspect this was a temporary problem, possibly the client side cache needs to be cleaned. I'm not able to reproduce this error and marking as CLOSED.