[Spacewalk-list] failed to retrieve repodata/repomd.xml

[miller3489 at comcast.net]

Matthew, I am new at this. If do not have any files in /etc/yum.repos.d directory, that is part of your problem. 
install Spacewalk REPO: yum localinstall http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.0/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-2.0-3.el6.noarch.rpm 
Install EPEL REPO: yum localinstall http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm 
of course this will depends on what version or OS you are running. Also you want to run setenforce 0, this will disable selinux temporarily. All in all you should have file in you yum.repos.d dir. 
----- Original Message -----

From: "Matthew Madey" <mattmadey at gmail.com> 
To: "Name, Full" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2014 8:27:27 PM 
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] failed to retrieve repodata/repomd.xml 


When running a yum -y update against a Fedora 20 client, I'm getting the below error: 

One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown), 
and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only 
safe thing yum can do is fail. 

failed to retrieve repodata/repomd.xml from fedora20-base-x86_64-updates 
error was [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found 

The client is subscribed to 2 child channels, and only the "updates" channel is causing the issue. Another Fedora 20 client configured the same way can download the repodata just fine. 
I don't have any .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/.. Here's what I've already tried thus far: 

On client 
- yum clean all 
- rm -Rf /var/cache/yum/* 
- Re-registering with Spacewalk 
- Compared rhn-plugin and other yum packages with working client, no differences in versions 
- Copying repodata from working client to affected client 
- Disabling iptables 
- Disabling SSL in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date 

On Spacewalk server 
- rm -Rf /var/cache/rhn ; service taskomatic restart (waited a full day to allow for metadata regeneration) 
- Unsubscribing and re-subscribing the client to the affected channel 
- tailing /var/log/httpd/error_log (surprisingly no errors) 

Right now I'm going back to the standard repo's and bypassing Spacewalk for this client to update, then I'll try again and see if I can get this working. Anyone have ideas as to what could be wrong? 






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