Re: Yum annoyance: "[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum" over and over

David Timms wrote:

Andre Robatino wrote:

Recently, the error "[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum" often happens repeatedly while trying to download the file primary.sqlite.bz2 from different servers. It's common for this to happen around a dozen times or more, which since the file is 3.8M can add up to 50M just to download metadata to find out whether there are updates. For those on dialup, this is a major pain. Why is this happening? For example

Each yum repo has a very small file: repomd.xml [eg < 2kB].

This file is used to determine whether there has been a change to the repository since the last check {ie yum based tool run - except there is an option to only check once each x {default 15minutes} seconds}. If the files pointed to by repomd.xml on your local disk are not the correct size or md5sum, then yum knows it needs to download each one mentioned files. So it uses the live mirrorlist {by default - and customized to your country -if more than two in country mirrors seem OK, otherwise the general all mirrorlist}, connects at random to one of the mirrors, and downloads the apparently ~out of date~ metadata file.

Now, either the mirror that it retrieved repomd.xml from could actually be out of date, or all the other mirrors metadata could be out of date; I'm guessing the first. This leads to every good mirror providing a perfectly good metadata file, but since it doesn't match the repomd.xml it is trashed, and the next mirror tried.

In general this shouldn't happen because:
- the ~live~ mirror list provides only mirrors that are up2date.

- the local metadata cache is considered stale and rechecked after 15 minutes {this speeds up things if you do sequential commands with yum based tools.}

In your case something extra is occurring: for the first two mirrors, each primary.sqlite.bz2 download is retrieved twice from the same mirror, I haven't seen that before. Also, two of the mirrors are randomly chosen again. This may be a bug, and I need mire information:

To further fault find this:
1. What is the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo ?
2. In the [updates] section, what is the mirrorlist= value ?
3. Open your web browser:
4. Copy/paste the mirrorlist url
5. Modify the $releasever to be your fedora version
6. Modify the $basearch to be your fedora architecture
7. Hit go/enter to download the mirrorlist. What does that say ?

Please reply just to the list, thanks,

DaveT.

mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch

and accessing the URL

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f7&arch=i386

gives

# repo = updates-released-f7 arch = i386 country = US  country = US
http://kdeforge.unl.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://ftp.usf.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.stanford.edu/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.steadfast.net/fedora/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/YUM/fedora/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.nuvio.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/updates/7/i386