The recently released Fedora 11(CentOS 5) 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(CentOS5) 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
OR you can close yum-updatesd daemon on runlevel 3
chkconfig level 3 yum-updatesd off
/etc/rc.d/init.d/yum-updatesd stop
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.
