Yup he tried that and removing everything out of that cache. I really don't think this is a yum issue at all. Howard, you said that the command :
curl "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os"; "keeps looping", which to me means that it's hitting every single one of these ip's : 72.232.223.58 204.15.73.243 64.235.47.134 69.30.193.218 and isn't getting anywhere. Then you said that wget was "working" and that you could download the mirrorlist, did you verify that the file that wget outputted was actually the text that I forwarded in the email previously? Just forget wget for now. If you run the curl command above it should not loop, it should immediately show you this output : http://mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu/linux/centos/6.5/os/i386/ http://mirrors.bluehost.com/centos/6.5/os/i386/ http://holmes.umflint.edu/centos/6.5/os/i386/ http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/centos/6.5/os/i386/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/centos/6.5/os/i386/ http://mirror.san.fastserv.com/pub/linux/centos/6.5/os/i386/ http://bay.uchicago.edu/centos/6.5/os/i386/ http://mirror.tocici.com/centos/6.5/os/i386/ http://mirror.nwresd.org/pub/centos/6.5/os/i386/ http://centos-mirror.jchost.net/6.5/os/i386/ I ran it several times from various hosts on various ISPs (at least in Nashville) and got the same thing multiple times, Piping the curl to md5sum gave me the same hash everytime, so you should get this exact same hash : % curl "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os"; | md5sum % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 499 0 499 0 0 3885 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 5483 7f47ea9c24114899a224861a34f8d559 - Again, if you're not getting that then you have connectivity issues somewhere else and it's not a yum problem. On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Blake Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote: > Something to note, yum clean all is not completely effective in some > cases, and if you are having continuing problems, it can be beneficial to > remove the var cache folder structure completely. Using RHN/Spacewalk is > one such case. > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Howard, >> >> I'm pretty confused too on what has been done and not done. >> >> However, going off the errors above (the "Cannot retrieve repository >> metadata") I did find this article >> https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/39598 (sorry for being behind >> regwall, free registration though) - one of its suggestions is to (a) >> disable all 3rd party/custom repo's then (b) run 'yum clean all' and then >> (c) enable the previously disabled repo's one by one. I think we have >> attempted (a) and (c) but I'm not sure we have tried step (b) in between. >> >> - Wesley >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 01/03/2014 02:59 PM, Howard White wrote: >>> >>>> On 01/03/2014 02:50 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: >>>> >>>>> ok, that's it! This is what I get : >>>>> >>>>> % curl "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os"; >>>>> http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> http://mirrors.cmich.edu/centos/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> ftp://mirror.nandomedia.com/pub/CentOS/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> http://mirror.millry.co/CentOS/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> http://mirrors.adams.net/centos/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> http://centos.corenetworks.net/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> http://centos-mirror.jchost.net/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> http://mirror.es.its.nyu.edu/centos/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> http://mirrors.rit.edu/centos/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> http://mirror.metrocast.net/centos/6.5/os/i386/ >>>>> >>>>> % host mirrorlist.centos.org <http://mirrorlist.centos.org> >>>>> mirrorlist.centos.org <http://mirrorlist.centos.org> has address >>>>> 72.232.223.58 >>>>> mirrorlist.centos.org <http://mirrorlist.centos.org> has address >>>>> 204.15.73.243 >>>>> mirrorlist.centos.org <http://mirrorlist.centos.org> has address >>>>> 64.235.47.134 >>>>> mirrorlist.centos.org <http://mirrorlist.centos.org> has address >>>>> 69.30.193.218 >>>>> mirrorlist.centos.org <http://mirrorlist.centos.org> has IPv6 address >>>>> 2a02:2498:1:3d:5054:ff:fed3:e91a >>>>> >>>>> I'm using google DNS 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 . >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> I'm getting lost here as to how to apply what we've learned to my >>>> situation. >>>> >>>> I changed my /etc/resolv.conf to point to the Google DNS as above. >>>> >>>> I just tried to run the first curl and it's looping just like the yum >>>> commands before. >>>> >>>> Please forgive my misunderstanding how these pieces fit together. >>>> >>>> Howard >>>> >>>> >>> Now I'm even more confused! If I wget the mirrorlist, it comes through >>> just fine. 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