Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:04:53 -0700
James P Dehnert Sr <jdehnert at dehnert.com> wrote:

> I just installed the peel repo on a RedHat Ent 6.1 system using the
> following command…
> 
>  su -c 'rpm -Uvh
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm'
> 
> Now when I query yum I get the following error message...
> 
>  Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again
> 
> The repo file seem good to me…
> 
> [epel]
> name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
> failovermethod=priority
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
> 
> But now this is breaking a number of package installed in puppet.  I
> Googled this error, but the consensus seems to be to just disable the
> repo, which doesn’t really address the problem.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue as to why this is happening?

Do a: 

URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum check-update

and see if that tells you what the problem is. 

It could be any of: 

- The date/time on your system is way off, so they metalink is invalid. 
- You are behind a proxy and can't download the metalink. 
- Your dns is not working right. 
etc. 

kevin
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