FC4: Yum complains about "Metadata file does not match checksum".

From: Hans Deragon (hans_at_deragon.biz)
Date: 07/26/05

  • Next message: patrick: "Re: rewriting http --> https not working" 
    Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:31:13 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Greetings.

    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.

    The environment variables http_proxy, https_proxy and no_proxy are set
    properly. lynx works fine with them. Anyhow, I don't suspect that the
    firewall/proxy is the problem here as yum is capable to download some files.

    So I want to debug this further. Can anyone tell me what are the
    checksums being compared? I looked quickly at yum's code, but where the
    comparison is being done, its not clear where the checksums come from;
    It requires much more digging within libraries. Something is wrong and
    I suspect that a bug report is in order here (even if the problem is
    between the keyboard and the chair, I would think that yum would need to
    report the problem with more details), but I need to figure out what the
    problem actually is and thus, any help for debugging this problem is
    welcomed.

    Running FC4.

    Best regards,
    Hans Deragon 

    --
Consultant en informatique/Software Consultant
Deragon Informatique inc.     Open source:
http://www.deragon.biz        http://facil.qc.ca (Promotion du libre)
mailto://hans@deragon.biz     http://autopoweroff.deragon.biz (Logiciel)
-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@redhat.com
To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
  • Next message: patrick: "Re: rewriting http --> https not working"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: yum update doesnt!
      ... >> Good luck! ... >> MWood ... > It's a bug in yum. ... Multiple tries, cleared cache, tried again multiple times ... ...
      (Fedora)
    • Re: yum vs. apt
      ... Peter Cannon said: ... Has anyone heard of porting Synaptic to work with yum? ... > isnt a problem apart from having three cache files which can get very ...
      (Fedora)