F20: YUM - failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates

[M. Fioretti]

Greetings,

I have, on a Fedora 20 x86_64 box, "yum update" failing with
lots of messages like the one in the subject, and others like:

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates
Trying other mirror.

###################################################

This started happening to me yesterday, when I used bleachbit
(yes, even on the yum stuff in /var/) to make space on a
practically full root partition. However, I just discovered
somebody else reporting the SAME problem TODAY
(give or take a repo or two) here:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=304378

but there is no mention of bleachbit there. "yum clean all" doesn't
change anything.

Earlier reports of similar problems turned out to be due to temporary 
problems
in the repos themselves:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=291838

Is it the same today, or something else? What now?
TIA for any advice,

Marco

[M. Fioretti]

On 2015-05-11 16:52, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> > OK, I'll wait until I see that announcement here then, no big
> deal
> > for me.
>  
>  Things should be back to normal now since last night. ;) 
confirmed, thanks.

Marco

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 11 May 2015 08:57:59 +0200
"M. Fioretti" <mfioretti(a)nexaima.net&gt; wrote:

>  On 2015-05-10 17:58, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  > There's an issue with the f20 updates repo metalink in
>  > mirrormanager.
>  > 
>  > We were hoping to have it fixed up quickly, but it's of course
>  > proving more difficult than it seems at first. ;(
>  > 
>  > Anyhow, folks are working on it, and we hope to have it fixed later
>  > today.
>  
>  OK, I'll wait until I see that announcement here then, no big deal
>  for me. 
Things should be back to normal now since last night. ;) 

kevin

[M. Fioretti]

On 2015-05-10 17:58, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  There's an issue with the f20 updates repo metalink in
> mirrormanager.
>  
>  We were hoping to have it fixed up quickly, but it's of course proving
>  more difficult than it seems at first. ;(
>  
>  Anyhow, folks are working on it, and we hope to have it fixed later
>  today. 
OK, I'll wait until I see that announcement here then, no big deal for 
me.

Thanks for your work!

Marco

[Tod Merley]

I do believe we all appreciate your efforts very much Kevin and all!!!


 I often see “trying another mirror” for various reasons as I do “sudo yum
update” when I boot to the F20 drives (most often flash or mSATA SSD
converted to USB). My thinking has been that mirror management is a slow
and ongoing process.


 Thanks for the reply Kevin, it is nice to know what is going on.

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:

>  There's an issue with the f20 updates repo metalink in
> mirrormanager.
>
>  We were hoping to have it fixed up quickly, but it's of course proving
>  more difficult than it seems at first. ;(
>
>  Anyhow, folks are working on it, and we hope to have it fixed later
>  today.
>
>  I'd suggest just waiting to grab updates until then, or if you need
>  something right away from the f20 updates repo you can edit your repo
>  file and comment the metalink and uncomment the baseurl. If you do
>  that, please remember to move it back once this is fixed as the
>  metalink provides normally many advantages over the baseurl.
>
>  Sorry for the trouble.
>
>  kevin
>
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[Kevin Fenzi]

There's an issue with the f20 updates repo metalink in mirrormanager. 

We were hoping to have it fixed up quickly, but it's of course proving
more difficult than it seems at first. ;( 

Anyhow, folks are working on it, and we hope to have it fixed later
today. 

I'd suggest just waiting to grab updates until then, or if you need
something right away from the f20 updates repo you can edit your repo
file and comment the metalink and uncomment the baseurl. If you do
that, please remember to move it back once this is fixed as the
metalink provides normally many advantages over the baseurl. 

Sorry for the trouble. 

kevin

[Tod Merley]

Same problem here - results in no working mirrors apparently found so reads
no updates needed (for many days on one machine).  I hope it is a mirror
management glitch they fix soon but if otherwise may they let us know.

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 6:49 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti(a)nexaima.net&gt; wrote:

>  Greetings,
>
>  I have, on a Fedora 20 x86_64 box, "yum update" failing with
>  lots of messages like the one in the subject, and others like:
>
>
>  ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
>  [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates
>  Trying other mirror.
>
>  ###################################################
>
>  This started happening to me yesterday, when I used bleachbit
>  (yes, even on the yum stuff in /var/) to make space on a
>  practically full root partition. However, I just discovered
>  somebody else reporting the SAME problem TODAY
>  (give or take a repo or two) here:
>
>  http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=304378
>
>  but there is no mention of bleachbit there. "yum clean all" doesn't
>  change anything.
>
>  Earlier reports of similar problems turned out to be due to temporary
>  problems
>  in the repos themselves:
>
>  http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=291838
>
>  Is it the same today, or something else? What now?
>  TIA for any advice,
>
>  Marco
>
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