Re: experiencing dnf Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora' or ''updates'

[Kevin Fenzi]

On 07/20/2018 03:55 AM, Michal Novotny wrote:

>  
>  I actually already filed the respective bugs:
>  
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1591225
>  
>  There is even PR:
>  
>  https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/1109
>  
>  that got blocked for an unknown reason and mainly unknown period.
>  
>  I wanted to confirm that more people are experiencing this issue, that it's
>  not just some "local" network problem. The problem is that dnf does not
>  respect max_retries option for a repo when mirror manager is being
>  contacted. I have no idea why it hasn't been fixed yet given that it
>  affects basically all dnf users and it also quite significantly affects
>  building in Copr. 
Thats a good workaround and we should do it, but I sure wish we could
track down when and why those sporadic 503's come from our mirrorlist
containers. ;(

Perhaps we could add further debugging and track it down. I'll see what
I can do...

kevin