Brief description of the problem
For the past few days I am getting hourly errors based on the inability of the Yum Update process. I note that others have had this issue in the past that has seemed to resolve itself but this doesn’t appear to be happening in this instance.
Detailed step by step instructions to reproduce the problem
On hourly update check by system
Error Traceback provided on the Web-UI
/etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/sbin/yum-cron”, line 735, in
main()
File “/usr/sbin/yum-cron”, line 732, in main
base.updatesCheck()
File “/usr/sbin/yum-cron”, line 624, in updatesCheck
self.populateUpdateMetadata()
File “/usr/sbin/yum-cron”, line 428, in populateUpdateMetadata
self.pkgSack # honor skip_if_unavailable
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/init.py”, line 1075, in
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/init.py”, line 778, in _getSacks
self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py”, line 347, in populateSack
self.doSetup()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py”, line 122, in doSetup
self.ayum.plugins.run(‘prereposetup’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 188, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File “/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py”, line 197, in prereposetup_hook
if downgrade_ftp and _len_non_ftp(repo.urls) == 1:
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py”, line 881, in
urls = property(fget=lambda self: self._geturls(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py”, line 878, in _geturls
self._baseurlSetup()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py”, line 824, in _baseurlSetup
mirrorurls.extend(list(self.metalink_data.urls()))
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py”, line 921, in
metalink_data = property(fget=lambda self: self._getMetalink(),
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py”, line 900, in _getMetalink
raise Errors.RepoError, msg
yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again