Subject: F16-verne
Description: Post installation - "yum" cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)
Note-1: in Fedora 16-verne, you can use 'nano' editor in order to edit the following repository files.
Note-2: Sorry for my bad English (i still learn) :)
Note-3: Comments are welcome for my improvements.
Note-4: The following solution was copied from below mentioned sites.
NOTE-5: Even though the following solution was implement in Fedora 11-leonidas, IT WORKS for my FEDORA 16-verne, dude :)
Solution walk-through:
The recently released Fedora 11 Leonidas
has some issues with it's regular update process. Many users are
getting a strange error which complains about the inability of the
update system to retrieve the repository metadata, namely repomd.xml. You can see the error as attached in this inlet below:
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
When we tried to install
Fedora 11 for the first time, we also faced a similar problem. A quick
twitter search brought us to a conclusion that we were not alone. But a
little tweaking of a few system files brought us back on track. In this article we tell you, how to go about resolving the problem in case you face it too.
- You need to edit two of your repository files: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo. Now un-comment all the lines that start with the term baseurl and place a comment before all lines that start with mirrorlist. This should be done for both the above files.
- Now edit your /etc/hosts file and append the following to it's contents:
80.239.156.215 mirrors.fedoraproject.org 213.129.242.84 mirrors.rpmfusion.org
Now try updating your system or installing any software via Yum. You will see, the error is now resolved and the error message is not shown anymore.
Thanks to:
-digitizor.com
Felix.
