Yum stopped working after F14 -> F15 upgrade

[Manish Kathuria]

Hello,

I have upgraded from F14 to F15 using preupgrade and everything seems
to be okay except yum. Whenever I run yum, it terminates giving the
error:

Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: updates. Please verify
its path and try again

The error message appeared for other repositories also. In order to
sort out the problem I have tried out the following:

1. Disabled livna, rpmfusion and other repositories.
2. Disabled ipv6
3. Created entries in /etc/hosts for mirror.fedoraproject.org
4. Reinstalled yum, fedora-release-15-1

However, none of this has solved the problem. DNS is working fine and
all other internet applications are able to resolve sites. Any
suggestions?

Thanks,

[Sam Varshavchik]

Manish Kathuria writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have upgraded from F14 to F15 using preupgrade and everything seems
> to be okay except yum. Whenever I run yum, it terminates giving the
> error:
>
> Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: updates. Please verify
> its path and try again
>
> The error message appeared for other repositories also. In order to
> sort out the problem I have tried out the following:
> Disabled livna, rpmfusion and other repositories.
> Disabled ipv6
> Created entries in /etc/hosts for mirror.fedoraproject.org
> Reinstalled yum, fedora-release-15-1
>
> However, none of this has solved the problem. DNS is working fine and
> all other internet applications are able to resolve sites. Any
> suggestions?

Don't recall offhand where yum looks for its http proxy configuration. If  
you have network connectivity, the only thing I can think of would be broken  
http proxy config. Look into that.

[Frank Murphy]

On 30/05/11 04:46, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Manish Kathuria writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have upgraded from F14 to F15 using preupgrade and everything seems
> > to be okay except yum. Whenever I run yum, it terminates giving the
> > error:

try
yum clean metadata
then try yum update again:

[Manish Kathuria]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Sam Varshavchik  wrote:
> Manish Kathuria writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have upgraded from F14 to F15 using preupgrade and everything seems
> > to be okay except yum. Whenever I run yum, it terminates giving the
> > error:
> >
> > Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: updates. Please verify
> > its path and try again
>
> Don't recall offhand where yum looks for its http proxy configuration. If
> you have network connectivity, the only thing I can think of would be broken
> http proxy config. Look into that.

Thanks, it was broken proxy configuration indeed.