yum not accessing repository when running F12-on-XO1

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Mikus Grinbergs<mikus at bga.com> wrote:
> Running on XO-1 with build soas-2-beta (booted from USB stick).
>
> For several days now, 'yum' is timing  out with the message: "Error: Cannot
> retrieve repository metadata (repmod.xml) for repository: fedora. Please
> verify its path and try again."
>
> Is the Fedora-12 repository having serious downtime problems, or is this
> something wrong with yum ?  [I experience no problem with 'yum' accessing
> the Fedora-11 repository when running F11-on-XO1 builds.]

Generally there's no issues with the Fedora 12 repos at the moment. Is
it trying to connect to the same mirror each time. It could be issues
with a particular mirror.

Regards,
Peter