[Solved]Fedora Linux Repository Error ([Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6)

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I was having trouble to update my Fedora Linux system by running sudo yum update.

sudo yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.
Please verify its path and try again

sometimes I see different sets of error:

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - ""

or

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 7 - ""

After searching these error messages on Google, I found tons of the workaround methods. Unfortunately, none of them works! Finally, I came up a way to fix this problem.

The reason why you see this error message because your system could not connect to the main Fedora server(At the time of writing this blog, fedoraproject.org has been downed for at least 4 days.), so that your computer is not redirected to any Fedora mirror servers. The easiest way to fix this problem is by specifying a mirror server in your yum repository configuration file.

First, let’s find a mirror that is closed to your location:

Fedora Mirror (Fedoraproject.org)

or

Google Cache

If you have any trouble to access the information, here is a copy of the list:

North America

ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/extras
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/fedora/extras

ftp://fedora.bu.edu/extras

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras
rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras

ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
rsync://rsync.muug.mb.ca/fedora-linux-extras/

http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/extras/
ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/extras/
rsync://mirror.hiwaay.net/fedora-linux-extras/

ftp://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/fedora/extras/
http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/fedora/extras/

http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora-core-extras
ftp://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora-core-extras
rsync://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/fedora-core-extras

http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/extras/
ftp://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/extras/
rsync://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/fedora-linux-extras/

http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/extras/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/extras/
rsync://rsync.gtlib.gatech.edu/fedora-linux-extras/

Europe

http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora-extras/
ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora-extras/
rsync://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/fedora/extras/

ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/fedora

http://ftp.lug.ro/fedora/linux/extras/
ftp://ftp.lug.ro/fedora/linux/extras/

http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/fedora/linux/extras
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/extras
rsync://rsync.uni-bayreuth.de/fedora-linux-extras

http://ftp1.skynet.cz/pub/linux/fedora/extras/
ftp://ftp1.skynet.cz/pub/linux/fedora/extras/

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core-extras/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core-extras/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/fedora/linux/extras/

ftp://ftp.udl.es/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
http://ftp.udl.es/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
rsync://ftp.udl.es/pub/fedora/linux/extras/

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/extras/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/extras/
rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/fedora/extras/

http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/
ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/
rsync://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/

http://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/fedora/linux/extras
ftp://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/fedora/linux/extras
rsync://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/fedora/linux/extras

http://mirror2.etf.bg.ac.yu/fedora/linux/extras
ftp://mirror2.etf.bg.ac.yu/fedora/linux/extras
rsync://mirror2.etf.bg.ac.yu/fedora/linux/extras

ftp://klid.dk/fedora/linux/extras/
http://klid.dk/homeftp/fedora/linux/extras/

Russia

http://ftp.rhd.ru/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
ftp://ftp.rhd.ru/pub/fedora/linux/extras/

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/extras/
http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/extras/
rsync://ftp.chg.ru/fedora/linux/extras/

Taiwan, Asia

http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Fedora/linux/extras/
ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Fedora/linux/extras/

Australia

http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/
rsync://rsync.planetmirror.com/fedora/linux/extras/

http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/fedora/linux/extras/
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/fedora/linux/extras/

In my example, I will use the following parameters:
Mirror: http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/
Version($releasever): 12
Architecture($basearch): x86_64

If you are not sure how to determine the version and the architecture, you can type:

cat /etc/redhat-release && uname -a

It should say something like:

Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
Linux 2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 21 15:57:45 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Next, run the following:

sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

and edit the following from:

[fedora]
...
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/

[fedora-source]
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/

to:

[fedora]
...
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/releases/12/Everything/x86_64/os/

[fedora-source]
...
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/releases/12/Everything/source/SRPMS/

Now, let’s do something similar to another file:

sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo

[updates]
...
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/updates/12/x86_64/

[updates-source]
...
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/updates/12/SRPMS/

Now, try to run the update again by:

sudo yum clean all
sudo yum update

It should work now. Enjoy your update!

Thoughts:

The reason why this problem happens because the Fedora server is down for at least 4 days(From 12/31 to 1/4, 2010, for four days.), and the problem is not fixed! Yes I know it is in the holiday, but it is not an excuse.

One reason why my company prefers using Fedora Linux is that it has a long history and it is backed by Red Hat. Now the quality of their service seems going down. (Their servers have gone down multiple times in December, and each down time lasted longer than a day.) I think it is probably about time for us to move to a different Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu.

Fedoraproject.org has downed.

FYI, I personally use FreeBSD for all of my server applications.

–Derrick

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22 Replies to “[Solved]Fedora Linux Repository Error ([Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6)”

  1. unix program

    I tried fedora12 on my laptop and love it. I want to install it on my desktop but need to know if fedora12 will run my sapphire 5750 gpu and allow…

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  3. Slaybaugh130

    Hi, I am using Linux and definitely a newbie. My sound was working fine for a couple of days after downloading Linux no problems. But I noticed…

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  4. Martin Campbell-Moore

    While this workaround fixes it, the problem can be in two areas;

    1) Ensure that you can dns lookup the main dns name. Some people who ran into dnssec problems due to old named.conf serrings didn’t fix their problem, only fixed the error. For the majority of people they needed to ensure in named.conf that the following line was ‘auto’ and nothing else.
    dnssec-lookaside auto;

    2) The rest of this issue is reported and solved in:
    http://digitizor.com/2009/06/17/how-to-fix-the-cannot-retrieve-repository-metadata-repomd-xml-error-in-fedora-11/

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    • Derrick Post author

      Hi Martin,

      Thanks for your comment. While I had the trouble to update my Fedora system, I already tried your 2nd solution but it didn’t work, because the entire *.fedoraproject.org were down. That’s why I suggested to use alternative way to reach the mirror hosts.

      Thanks.

      –Derrick

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  6. Pubudu

    Oh my god man…!!! Many thanks for this thing. This is exactly what I was looking for. Even I was about to remove fedora 12 🙂

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  8. The Doctor

    I know this is an old article, but it pointed me in the right direction, I got Fedora to finally upload, but, being lazy, I didn’t manually edit the files, instead, I just added ‘export basearch=[insert x86_64 or i686 whatever]’ and ‘export releasever=[#Fedora]’ to ~/.bash_profile . (It’s an issue…)

    Now I’m off to duct tape together a solution to installing Flash on this new kernel in Fedora 13…

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  9. Rodd Serling

    this document just wasted about an hour of my time. there are obviously other possible causes for [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 7 – “”, having nothing to do with the repo URLs.

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    • Derrick Post author

      @Rodd – As I mentioned in the article, the fedora server was down for 4 days in my case. If the server was available in your case, then this method probably won’t apply to you. 🙁

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  11. 1001001100100

    You will also get the same error if your DNS isn’t resolving and it cant actually d/l any repo data…

    [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 – “”

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  13. Nikhil Dev

    Thanks Bro..You have really done some investigation and fixed this issue, unlike others who give try this try that..

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  14. Macs

    This is a nice post. I´ve encountered this post several times this week searching for something alike. Now is in my news box 🙂 Keep up the good work!

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  15. ixboat

    new install of Centos 6.2 Minimal CD. Good exercise in basic linux ing.
    Got above ERR as
    —
    1001001100100 says:
    October 11, 2010 at 6:32 pm
    You will also get the same error if your DNS isn’t resolving and it cant actually d/l any repo data…
    [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 – “”
    —-
    and was far enough along that all i had to do was put dns server info into /etc/resolv.conf
    then yum ran happy as a green lizard

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  16. ixboat

    new install of Centos 6.2 Minimal CD. Good exercise in basic linux ing.
    Got above ERR as
    —
    1001001100100 says:
    October 11, 2010 at 6:32 pm
    You will also get the same error if your DNS isn’t resolving and it cant actually d/l any repo data…
    [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 – “”
    —-
    and was far enough along that all i had to do was put dns server info into /etc/resolv.conf
    then yum ran happy as a green lizard
    —

    also – FUCK THESE POPUP ADS i’m getting as i try to write this on your page! they are invasive and annoying as a commie rat bastard

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