Bug 676313 - yum cannot retrieve repository data via https mirror list
Summary: yum cannot retrieve repository data via https mirror list
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-09 13:37 UTC by Jan Vlug
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:17 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 15:49:08 UTC
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Description Jan Vlug 2011-02-09 13:37:02 UTC
Description of problem:
On a freshly installed Fedora 14 system, behind a proxy, yum update results in:

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.28-5.fc14.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install fedora 14 
2. enter network behind a proxy
3. add proxy=http://path.to.proxy:8080 to /etc/yum.conf
4. yum update
  
Actual results:
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

Expected results:
An updated system.

Additional info:
Changing mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/...
to mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/...
(thus not using https) solves the issue.

Comment 1 JO 2011-08-16 13:43:02 UTC
One of a pair of boxes here with F15 X86_64 is showing this error both during and after install preventing any updates. Tried removing the s from https but that did not help. Also have added 80.239.156.215 mirrors.fedoraproject.org to /etc/hosts but still no updating.

Comment 2 JO 2011-08-17 12:49:44 UTC
Changing the DVD drive (from a Toshiba Samsung Writemaster to a Pioneer model) solved the problem for my gigabyte mainboard. Not the first time there have been suspect compatibility problems with DVD drives.

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