Yum Issue

**bigguy_132** · 03-31-2011, 02:19 PM

I am need of some help. I dorked up my yum update and cannot get it to go out now. Hopefully someone can help me get this issue fixed. I would just like to not that this was user caused and it did work at one time but just broke recently. Below us the error that is going on

[root@***** yum.repos.d]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: rpmforge
[root@***** yum.repos.d]#

**JPC-Zishan** · 03-31-2011, 02:25 PM

I would suggest doing "yum clean all" and reinstall rpmforge repo.

**bigguy_132** · 03-31-2011, 02:36 PM

Stupid question Zishan how do I reinstall the rpmforge repo? Thanks for the response as well.

**JPC-Zishan** · 03-31-2011, 02:44 PM

You need to check if rpmforge-release rpm is installed or not.

Code:

# rpm -qa | grep rpmforge-release

If installed, remove it :

Code:

# rpm -e rpmforge-release

and reinstall it by downloading the rpm for your OS from http://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge/Using. You can keep it removed if the OS provided repos are already installed.