Mirrorlist problems?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:10:01PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> 
> >
> > ----- "Andrew McNabb" <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I just installed a new machine with Fedora 12 this evening, and
> > > Anaconda
> > > gave an error about not being able to get the repository metadata.  I
> > > ended up switching the URL from the default mirrorlist to a specific
> > > mirror, and the installation worked.  Now that the system is
> > > installed,
> > > I tried to use yum and got the error: "Error: Cannot retrieve
> > > repository
> > > metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path
> > > and
> > > try again".  Are there any known infrastructure problems right now?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > A user in #fedora reported an issue like this with the RPM Fusion repo however his was a 503 error.
> >
> 
> I couldn't recreate, can anyone else?

Could it have been this problem?

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-January/364162.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-January/364174.html

The solution Richard Hughes gave appears to have worked for the OP in
that thread, but I don't know the particular cause.

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