Hans Deragon wrote: > I did the following multiple times: > > ------> > [root@snah1 ~] yum clean all > Cleaning up Everything > 0 headers removed > 0 packages removed > 5 metadata files removed > 0 cache files removed > 1 cache files removed > [root@snah1 ~] yum update > Setting up Update Process > Setting up repositories > updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > Reading repository metadata in from local files > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 219 kB 00:00 > updates-re: ################################################## 664/664 > Added 664 new packages, deleted 0 old in 5.63 seconds > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 563 kB 00:00 > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: > [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum > Trying other mirror. > Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from extras: [Errno 256] No more > mirrors to try. > <------ > > ...and the error occurs all the time. I search the archives and found > that this kind of error occurs often, but all the solutions where to > retry again later and run "yum clean all". For everybody else in the > world, it solves the problem. For me, well I tried multiple times on > multiple days and I still have the problem. This occurs on my computer > at work, behind a firewall/proxy. However, when I run the same commands > on my computer at home, at the same time, they work fine. Thus I > suspect that this is not a problem with the mirrors. I got this error the other day. I was amazed at the sites all over the world that were tried! My solution was to replace the mirrorlist in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ entry by a local repository (ie one in the same country), in my case ================================== #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever ================================== I'm not clear why this worked, but it did. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
