Metadata file does not match checksum

Thu May 4 04:58:50 UTC 2006

On 5/3/06, jerryw4386 at netscape.net <jerryw4386 at netscape.net> wrote:
> Now it is doing the same thing on my laptop[ I give up]
>  you know i did have a full head of hair now i am bold
>  looks like i will be using windoeszzzzzzzzzzzz
>  some time using Fedora core 5???????????
>
>  root at localhost ~]# yum clean metadata
>  Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>  Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
>  Cleaning up xml metadata
>  14 metadata files removed
>  [root at localhost ~]# yum clean packages
>  Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>  Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
>  Cleaning up Packages
>  0 packages removed
>  [root at localhost ~]# yum -y update
>  Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>  Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
>  Setting up Update Process
>  Setting up repositories
>  livna [1/4]
>  livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>  updates [2/4]
>
> http://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/core/updates/
> 5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (101,
> 'Network is unreachable')>
>  Trying other mirror.
>  updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>  core [3/4]
>   //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:50: parser error : Opening and ending
> tag mismatch: img line 48 and div
>  </div>
>  ^
>   //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:51: parser error : Opening and ending
> tag mismatch: img line 45 and div
>  </div>
>  ^
>   //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:73: parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not
> defined
>  <div id="border"> </div>
>  ^
>   //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:79: parser error : Entity 'copy' not
> defined
>   <span class="text">Copyright © 2004 NGI S.p.A. | All rights
> reserved</s
>  ^
>   //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:85: parser error : Opening and ending
> tag mismatch: div line 10 and body
>  </body>
>  ^
>   //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:86: parser error : Opening and ending
> tag mismatch: body line 9 and html
>  </html>
>  ^
>   //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:87: parser error : Premature end of
> data in tag html line 3
>
>  ^
>  core 100% |=========================| 2.7 kB 00:00
>   http://fedora.ngi.it/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error
> importing repomd.xml for core: Error: could not parse file
> //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml
>  Trying other mirror.
>  core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
>  extras [4/4]
>
> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/r
> epodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Thu, 04 May 2006
> 03:43:52 GMT
>  Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
>  Content-Length: 348
>  Connection: close
>  Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>  Trying other mirror.
>  extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
>  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  Reading repository metadata in from local files
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 160 kB 00:01
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 296 kB 00:02
>
> ftp://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/rep
> odata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>  Trying other mirror.
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 298 kB 00:28
>
> http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/repodat
> a/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>  Trying other mirror.
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 218 kB 00:01
>
> http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora-core/updates/5/i386/repodata/pri
> mary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>  Trying other mirror.
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 298 kB 00:02
>
> ftp://fedora.bu.edu/fedora/core/updates/5/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>  Trying other mirror.
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 298 kB 00:47
>
> http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/repodata/pr
> imary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>  Trying other mirror.
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 249 kB 00:01
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 767 kB 00:05
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB 00:08
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata
> /primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>  Trying other mirror.
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 787 kB 00:05
>
> ftp://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/
> primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>  Trying other mirror.
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB 01:00
>
> http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/repodata/prim
> ary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>  Trying other mirror.
>  primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 958 kB 00:06
>  extras : ################################################## 2670/2670
>  Added 129 new packages, deleted 468 old in 5.19 seconds
>  No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
>  [root at localhost ~]#
>

As I said before there is nothing wrong with your system. Yum is
working properly. Your yum settings, however, are dependent upon the
use of a list of mirrors (mirrorlist). Obviously, where you are
located the mirrors selected are not communicating reliably with your
system. The quick fix is to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
like so:

$cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo
[extras]
name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-$releasever
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
gpgcheck=1

[snip]

Notice that I removed the "#" in front of "baseurl" and added one in
front of "mirrorlist". This connects you to the main Extras server and
should work for you. It may be slow because of heavy traffic. If you
need a faster mirror go to
http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html and select one. Visit
the site using your web browser to get the URL specifics for the FC5
update files.