Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) on fresh F11 install

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 18:04:03 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Dave Stevens<geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> like this:
>
> [dave at davehost yum.repos.d]$ cat fedora.repo
> [fedora]
> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
> failovermethod=priority
> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> enabled=1
> metadata_expire=7d
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
>

Try disabling the mirrorlist and enabling the baseurl. Do the same for
fedora-updates.repo.

If that works go to
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/ and find a
mirror that is close to you geographically. Add the mirror as the
primary repo or use it in place of http://download.fedoraproject.org .
E.g.

 $ cat fedora.repo
[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
             http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
# mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch




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