Important: Broken EPEL mirror breaking EPEL in UK - "mirrorservice.org"

[Nick Bebout]

I have marked it as not "admin_active" so it should disappear from mirror lists shortly.

I'll try to remember to check on it and I will email the mirror's admins when I get hometonight, but if anyone notices it being fixed, please let me or another mirrormanager admin know so we can reenable it.

Nick

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On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:10 AM, "Bell D." <D.Bell at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Would it be possible for somebody to remove it from the Fedora mirror list
> until it is fixed then?
> 
> (Sorry for the incorrect quoting/top-posting of this e-mail; I'm forced to
> use Outlook/Exchange for my work email).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 
> On 27/10/2011 16:45, "Emyr James" <emyrjames1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 27/10/11 16:33, Bell D. wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Nearly all of our RHEL4/5/6 desktops and workstations at the University
>> of Southampton use the EPEL repository (via the epel-release rpm). For
>> the past few days the mirrorservice.org mirror appear to be broken,
>> generating errors like these on RHEL:
>> 
> I noticed this too. I logged a bug report on their site but have heard
> nothing from them.
>> [root at uos-5416 cache]# yum clean all
>> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
>> Cleaning up Everything
>> [root at uos-5416 cache]# yum check-update
>> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
>> epel             
>> 
>>         | 3.7 kB     00:00
>> 
>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x
>> 86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2
>> : [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>> Trying other mirror.
>> 
>> http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d
>> 4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not
>> Found
>> Trying other mirror.
>> 
>> http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98df
>> e6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404:
>> Not Found
>> Trying other mirror.
>> 
>> http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd
>> 81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>> Trying other mirror.
>> 
>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x
>> 86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2
>> : [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>> Trying other mirror.
>> 
>> http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d
>> 4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not
>> Found
>> Trying other mirror.
>> 
>> http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98df
>> e6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404:
>> Not Found
>> Trying other mirror.
>> 
>> http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd
>> 81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>> Trying other mirror.
>> Error: failure: 
>> repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2 from
>> epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>> 
>> The yum configuration (as set by epel-release rpm) uses
>> mirrors.fedoraproject.org to generate mirrors to use, which right now are:
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x
>> 86_64/
>> http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/
>> http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/
>> http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/
>> 
>> You can view this list anywhere in the world like so:
>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=x86_64&countr
>> y=gb
>> 
>> The bottom four mirrors all seem to be correct, but the first mirror
>> (mirrorservice.org) is broken, its repomd.xml file refers to files which
>> are not on the mirror (or in fact on any of the mirrors!).
>> 
>> Can somebody either remove the mirrorservice.org mirror ASAP from the
>> generator on mirrors.fedoraproject.org system, or fix the mirror. The one
>> broken mirror appears to in effect break EPEL altogether in the UK
>> because as soon as yum caches the repomd.xml file from the first mirror
>> (mirroservice.org) it then continues to look for the invalid/non-existent
>> SQLite file which doesn't exist on all of the other mirrors - because
>> it's using the repomd.xml file from the first mirror. Right now that
>> means all our server and desktop builds are broken and our customers are
>> reporting that their desktops tell them that the system is not receiving
>> updates.
>> 
>> I've cc'ed in help at mirrorservice.org onto this e-mail since it is their
>> mirror which is currently giving out incorrect info.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> David Bell
>> Enterprise Systems Team
>> University of Southampton
>> 
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