dnf woes

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 12:31:46AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> I have been watching the dnf arguments over the last year or so with a
>> little interest but now I am exposed to an actual problem - I have been
>> making VMs from the last few beta versions of Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-22 and
>> find that Beta-3 still does not let me update packages after installation -
>> I still get the following error:
>>
>> "Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora' from
>> 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-22&arch=x86_64':
>> Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors
>> were tried"
>>
>> whenever I do anything with dnf (eg "dnf [install xx | update]" etc) - there
>> doesn't to be too many reports about this so am I missing something?
>
> This is likely not related to dnf but to changes on the Fedora infrastructure on
> the mirrorlist servers.
> I believe there just was a small hick-ups, could you try again now to see if you
> can still reproduce it?

Also make sure the computer's time is correct as a time diff over 5
mins can also cause similar issues.

Peter