Hi, I saw the same behavior. Checksum issue with the repodata yesterday, but it's fine today. It could have been a transient issue on RHN.
-- Dennis Release Configuration Management Red Hat On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 21:30 +0000, Dennett, Charles wrote: > I first ran into this problem on a system I was building this morning. I > just reregistered it and tried my usual yum clean all followed by a yum > update and it worked. > > Then I just went to the system I built yesterday, did a yum clean all and a > yum update and this time it worked. (It had failed just a short while ago.) > Maybe they fixed something on the RH end. Maybe they'll report something on > the bug I filed. > > Charlie. > > -----Original Message----- > From: rhelv5-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:rhelv5-list-boun...@redhat.com] > On Behalf Of Robin Price II > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:19 PM > To: rhelv5-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Repository for RHEL Broken? > > Charles, > > Hmm. Normally this should do the trick. I have ran into this before on > my test machines. Clearing the metadata and cache would help resolve > this. I can't remember, but I might have removed the system off RHN and > re-registered the machine and it worked. > > Good luck! > > ~rp > > On 01/24/2012 04:08 PM, Dennett, Charles wrote: > > Thanks for that link. I already tried the "yum clean all". It did not > > help. > > > > Charlie > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: rhelv5-list-boun...@redhat.com > > [mailto:rhelv5-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robin Price II > > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:01 PM > > To: rhelv5-list@redhat.com > > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Repository for RHEL Broken? > > > > > > Charles, > > > > Yum fails with "[Error -1] Metadata file does not match checksum" error > > while updating system > > > > https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-25842 > > > > Not a bug. > > > > ~rp > > > > On 01/24/2012 03:48 PM, Dennett, Charles wrote: > >> All of a sudden today when I try to update packages for RHEL5 from the > >> Redhat RHN repository I get this: > >> > >> [root@lx01s121 ~]# yum update > >> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security > >> rhel-x86_64-server-5/primary > >> | 49 kB 00:00 > >> rhel-x86_64-server-5/primary > >> | 49 kB 00:00 > >> Error: failed to retrieve > >> repodata/4161f2ba7349e279304dcca95546ac0e6a927ac0-primary.xml.gz from > >> rhel-x86_64-server-5 error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match > >> checksum > >> > >> I was able to reproduce it on each system I tried it on so I presume it's > >> RedHat's problem, not mine. I've filed a bug report: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784393 > >> > >> Is anyone else seeing this? > >> > >> Charles Dennett > >> Linux/UNIX Admin > >> Windstream > >> Rochester, NY > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> rhelv5-list mailing list > >> rhelv5-list@redhat.com > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
