Yum wierdness

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 04/11/2011 02:59 AM, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
> I upgraded a working F13 x86_64 to F14 x 86_64 from a downloaded DVD 
> which verified and then went to do a "yum update" after the upgrade from 
> the DVD.
> 
> I am getting the following message:
> 
> "http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:  [Errno 
> 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - " "
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository 
> adobe-linux-i386.  Please verify its path and try again"
> 
> Any ideas what went wrong and why I am looking for i386 updates?

You are looking for an i386 update because yum is looking for an update
for some RPM that is already installed on your system as an i386 RPM.

You didn't including the command line you used with yum (or did you use
some gui tool?).  Was this as a part of the DVD updgrade, I thought you
said it was afterward, which would indicate that yum is looking for
updates for *all* of your installed software.

PYCURL ERROR 6 is one of those errors that comes from a "tool" yum is
using to do some of its heavy lifting, and yum has decided to present
you with the raw error message from that tool, instead of interpreting
it for you.

(Quality software, tastefully presented!)

If you google "PYCURL ERROR 6", you will find lots of posts asking what
it means.  Most of them allude to either a non-working network
connection, or a missing target of an attempted download.

So, from that I would gather that either your network isn't working, or
the target file that yum was attempting to download
(.../repodata/repomd.xml) could not be found on the server it attempted
to download it from....

If it is a transient error (at adobe.com), it should clear up after a
while.  (Are you getting other files updated outside of this repo?)

Does everything work OK if you disable the troublesome repo?

> Thanks
> 
> Mike

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