If you run this, what do you get? $ wget -S -O - 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386' Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO From: mirror-admin-bounces(a)fedoraproject.org [mailto:mirror-admin-bounces@fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of niji ogunbameru Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 8:53 AM To: mirror-admin(a)fedoraproject.org Subject: Fwd: Yum Update error. Is the mirror down? Dear Sir / Madam Each tile I try to run yum update, The following error is been generated. yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386 error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: epel Is this a sign of possible issue with the mirror site. Regards Niji Copy of my /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&ar... failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL<file:///\\etc\pki\rpm-gpg\RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL> [epel-debuginfo] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch/debug mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-5&... failovermethod=priority enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL<file:///\\etc\pki\rpm-gpg\RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL> gpgcheck=1 [epel-source] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/SRPMS mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-5... failovermethod=priority enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL<file:///\\etc\pki\rpm-gpg\RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL> -- Niji Ogunbameru IT Systems Experian pH * Royalty Studios | 105-109 Lancaster | Road London | W11 1QF T: 44 (0) 207 9859782 | M: 44 (0) 795 9716201 http://www.experian.co.uk| http://www.phgroup.com

What is your IP address? You have something quite weird going on here. You're failing long before you even hit any fedoraproject.org server. It appears you have a squid-like proxy server set (likely in your environment), which responds at address 192.168.12.42. However, see the "bad request" messages coming from it. If I had to guess, I would say that your http_proxy environment variable is messed up. Try with: # unset http_proxy # wget -S -O - 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386' Also, your proxy server's URL is quite odd, using Unicode characters (character "FIGURE DASH") followed by letter s, or o. That's the %E2%80%93 part. http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?ucode=2000-206f Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO From: niji ogunbameru [mailto:niji.ogunbameru@phgroup.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:29 AM To: Domsch, Matt Cc: mirror-admin(a)fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Yum Update error. Is the mirror down? Please also see my comment below:: [root@snmp-nagios snmptt_1.3]# wget -S -O - 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386' --2011-02-28 04:16:16-- http://%E2%80%93s/ Connecting to 192.168.12.42:3128... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 400 Bad Request 2011-02-28 04:16:16 ERROR 400: Bad Request. --2011-02-28 04:16:16-- http://%E2%80%93o/ Connecting to 192.168.12.42:3128... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 400 Bad Request 2011-02-28 04:16:16 ERROR 400: Bad Request. --2011-02-28 04:16:16-- http://-/ Connecting to 192.168.12.42:3128... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Unavailable 2011-02-28 04:16:16 ERROR 503: Service Unavailable. --2011-02-28 04:16:16-- http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386 Connecting to 192.168.12.42:3128... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2011-02-28 04:16:16 ERROR 404: Not Found. You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root I am getting this with epel.repo disabled as I have revert back to Centos-Base repo. I think something is definitly wrong with the http http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386 I will like to get the resolved as this is repo is more cleaner and resourceful Any help will be appreciated Kind Regards Niji Niji Ogunbameru IT Systems Experian pH * Royalty Studios | 105-109 Lancaster | Road London | W11 1QF T: 44 (0) 207 9859782 | M: 44 (0) 795 9716201 http://www.experian.co.uk| http://www.phgroup.com On 02/25/2011 05:08 PM, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com<mailto:Matt_Domsch@Dell.com> wrote: If you run this, what do you get? $ wget -S -O - 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386' Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO From: mirror-admin-bounces@fedoraproject.org<mailto:mirror-admin-bounces@fedoraproject.org> [mailto:mirror-admin-bounces@fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of niji ogunbameru Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 8:53 AM To: mirror-admin@fedoraproject.org<mailto:mirror-admin@fedoraproject.org> Subject: Fwd: Yum Update error. Is the mirror down? Dear Sir / Madam Each tile I try to run yum update, The following error is been generated. yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386 error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: epel Is this a sign of possible issue with the mirror site. Regards Niji Copy of my /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&ar... failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL<file:///\\%5C%5Cetc%5Cpki%5Crpm-gpg%5CRPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL> [epel-debuginfo] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch/debug mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-5&... failovermethod=priority enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL<file:///\\%5C%5Cetc%5Cpki%5Crpm-gpg%5CRPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL> gpgcheck=1 [epel-source] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/SRPMS mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-5... failovermethod=priority enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL<file:///\\%5C%5Cetc%5Cpki%5Crpm-gpg%5CRPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL> -- Niji Ogunbameru IT Systems Experian pH * Royalty Studios | 105-109 Lancaster | Road London | W11 1QF T: 44 (0) 207 9859782 | M: 44 (0) 795 9716201 http://www.experian.co.uk| http://www.phgroup.com