<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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 home<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">tonight</a>, but if anyone notices it being fixed, please let me or another mirrormanager admin know so we can reenable it. Nick Sent from my iPhone</div><div> On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:10 AM, "Bell D." <<a href="mailto:D.Bell@soton.ac.uk">D.Bell@soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote: </div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>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" <<a href="mailto:emyrjames1@googlemail.com">emyrjames1@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: On 27/10/11 16:33, Bell D. wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Hello, </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nearly all of our RHEL4/5/6 desktops and workstations at the University </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of Southampton use the EPEL repository (via the epel-release rpm). For </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the past few days the <a href="http://mirrorservice.org">mirrorservice.org</a> mirror appear to be broken, </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">generating errors like these on RHEL: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote>I noticed this too. I logged a bug report on their site but have heard nothing from them. <blockquote type="cite">[root@uos-5416 cache]# yum clean all </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cleaning up Everything </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[root@uos-5416 cache]# yum check-update </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">epel </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> | 3.7 kB 00:00 </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x">http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2 </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trying other mirror. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d">http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Found </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trying other mirror. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98df">http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98df</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">e6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Not Found </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trying other mirror. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd">http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trying other mirror. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x">http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2 </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trying other mirror. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d">http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Found </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trying other mirror. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98df">http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98df</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">e6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Not Found </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trying other mirror. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd">http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trying other mirror. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Error: failure: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">repodata/c33521c50de98dfe6d4031fd81f997e7bdcfc1c2-primary.sqlite.bz2 from </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The yum configuration (as set by epel-release rpm) uses </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org">mirrors.fedoraproject.org</a> to generate mirrors to use, which right now are: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x">http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">86_64/ </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/">http://mirror01.th.ifl.net/epel/5/x86_64/</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/">http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/">http://mirrors.coreix.net/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You can view this list anywhere in the world like so: </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=x86_64&countr">http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=x86_64&countr</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">y=gb </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The bottom four mirrors all seem to be correct, but the first mirror </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://mirrorservice.org">mirrorservice.org</a>) is broken, its repomd.xml file refers to files which </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are not on the mirror (or in fact on any of the mirrors!). </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Can somebody either remove the <a href="http://mirrorservice.org">mirrorservice.org</a> mirror ASAP from the </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">generator on <a href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org">mirrors.fedoraproject.org</a> system, or fix the mirror. The one </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">broken mirror appears to in effect break EPEL altogether in the UK </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">because as soon as yum caches the repomd.xml file from the first mirror </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://mirroservice.org">mirroservice.org</a>) it then continues to look for the invalid/non-existent </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SQLite file which doesn't exist on all of the other mirrors - because </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it's using the repomd.xml file from the first mirror. Right now that </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">means all our server and desktop builds are broken and our customers are </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">reporting that their desktops tell them that the system is not receiving </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">updates. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've cc'ed in <a href="mailto:help@mirrorservice.org">help@mirrorservice.org</a> onto this e-mail since it is their </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">mirror which is currently giving out incorrect info. </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers, </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">David Bell </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Enterprise Systems Team </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">University of Southampton </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________ </blockquote><blockquote type="cite">epel-devel-list mailing list </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:epel-devel-list@redhat.com">epel-devel-list@redhat.com</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list</a> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:epel-devel-list@redhat.com">epel-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list</a> _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:epel-devel-list@redhat.com">epel-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list</a> </div></blockquote></body></html>