Description of problem: I was running Fedora 12. Started updating my Fedora 12 install to Fedora 13 Beta as I was told it had better hardware support for my Dell Inspiron 1564 Laptop. Started following steps mentioned at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum When I reached step 4, since then any yum commands results in the error message: "Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again" I have searched the internet for solutions to these issues. Have already tried the following: 1. Switch baseurl and mirrorlist in my fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo 2. Added Mirror IPs in my /etc/hosts 3. Added a proxy statement inside my yum.conf (since I am under a proxy) But neither has solved my issue. Additional info: Current Yum.conf - http://fpaste.org/ZYNz/ Current Fedora.repo - http://fpaste.org/qLwE/ Actual Yum Output - http://fpaste.org/zHhp/ rpm -q fedora-release: fedora-release-13-0.7.noarch rpm -q libproxy: libproxy-0.2.3-12.fc12.i686
added: proxy=<ip>:<port> proxy_username=<my username> proxy_password=<my password> and yum is working now. hopefully, will update to Fedora 13 Beta seamless now.