One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown)

DustinB3403

@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

Does anyone have an idea on how to work this problem?

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: reflector.westga.edu
* epel: ftp.cse.buffalo.edu
* extras: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
* remi-php71: repo1.ash.innoscale.net
* remi-safe: repo1.ash.innoscale.net
* updates: ftpmirror.your.org


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. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

   1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

   2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
  	upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
  	distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
  	packages for the previous distribution release still work).

   3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled
  		yum --disablerepo=<repoid> ...

   4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default. Yum
  	will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it
  	again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:

  		yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>
  	or
  		subscription-manager repos --disable=<repoid>

   5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
  	Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
  	so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
  	slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
  	compromise:

  		yum-config-manager --save --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true

file is encrypted or is not a database

Did you try any of the things it said to try to fix it?

I have no idea which repo is the culprit, so no I'm not going to just start disabling every repo one by one to see which is broken.

It tells you.

No it specifically says unknown, the top of the list are the base repos, of which are all required for the system to operate. Which disabling those would be paramount to not receiving updates ever again.

Obsolesce

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):
@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):
@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):
@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):
Does anyone have an idea on how to work this problem?
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: reflector.westga.edu
* epel: ftp.cse.buffalo.edu
* extras: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
* remi-php71: repo1.ash.innoscale.net
* remi-safe: repo1.ash.innoscale.net
* updates: ftpmirror.your.org


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. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

   1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

   2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
  	upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
  	distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
  	packages for the previous distribution release still work).

   3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled
  		yum --disablerepo=<repoid> ...

   4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default. Yum
  	will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it
  	again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:

  		yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>
  	or
  		subscription-manager repos --disable=<repoid>

   5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
  	Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
  	so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
  	slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
  	compromise:

  		yum-config-manager --save --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true

file is encrypted or is not a database
Did you try any of the things it said to try to fix it?
I have no idea which repo is the culprit, so no I'm not going to just start disabling every repo one by one to see which is broken.
It tells you.
No it specifically says unknown, the top of the list are the base repos, of which are all required for the system to operate. Which disabling those would be paramount to not receiving updates ever again.

But you cannot update now either. So you can disable one, try it, put it back if not the one.

DustinB3403

@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

But you cannot update now either. So you can disable one, try it, put it back if not the one.

This is true, but if I can't update currently, then the issue is with an upstream repo. It's not critical to update today for me. I was just checking to see if anyone else has seen this and worked with the issue.

Obsolesce

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

But you cannot update now either. So you can disable one, try it, put it back if not the one.

This is true, but if I can't update currently, then the issue is with an upstream repo. It's not critical to update today for me. I was just checking to see if anyone else has seen this and worked with the issue.

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

But you cannot update now either. So you can disable one, try it, put it back if not the one.

This is true, but if I can't update currently, then the issue is with an upstream repo. It's not critical to update today for me. I was just checking to see if anyone else has seen this and worked with the issue.

Comment out each repo one by one and try update. That's about all you can do

marcinozga

Install yum-cron, set it up to email you when updates are installed and stop worrying about updates.

IRJ

@marcinozga said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

Install yum-cron, set it up to email you when updates are installed and stop worrying about updates.

That doesn't fix a broken repo, you will still get errors

DustinB3403

@IRJ said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

But you cannot update now either. So you can disable one, try it, put it back if not the one.

This is true, but if I can't update currently, then the issue is with an upstream repo. It's not critical to update today for me. I was just checking to see if anyone else has seen this and worked with the issue.

Comment out each repo one by one and try update. That's about all you can do

Commented each repo one by one in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and tried again with no change.

Since there are all of these CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS-Vault.repo epel-testing.repo ius.repo remi-glpi91.repo remi-glpi93.repo remi-modular.repo remi-php70.repo remi-php72.repo remi.repo CentOS-CR.repo CentOS-fasttrack.repo CentOS-Sources.repo epel.repo ius-archive.repo ius-testing.repo remi-glpi92.repo remi-glpi94.repo remi-php54.repo remi-php71.repo remi-php73.repo remi-safe.repo

I'm just gonna wait till later on and see if this is resolved upstream.

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@IRJ said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@Obsolesce said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

But you cannot update now either. So you can disable one, try it, put it back if not the one.

This is true, but if I can't update currently, then the issue is with an upstream repo. It's not critical to update today for me. I was just checking to see if anyone else has seen this and worked with the issue.

Comment out each repo one by one and try update. That's about all you can do

Commented each repo one by one in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and tried again with no change.

Since there are all of these CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS-Vault.repo epel-testing.repo ius.repo remi-glpi91.repo remi-glpi93.repo remi-modular.repo remi-php70.repo remi-php72.repo remi.repo CentOS-CR.repo CentOS-fasttrack.repo CentOS-Sources.repo epel.repo ius-archive.repo ius-testing.repo remi-glpi92.repo remi-glpi94.repo remi-php54.repo remi-php71.repo remi-php73.repo remi-safe.repo

I'm just gonna wait till later on and see if this is resolved upstream.

There can be more than one file in that directory. Make sure there are no other files

DustinB3403

@IRJ In /etc/yum.repos.d there are all of these.

CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS-Vault.repo epel-testing.repo ius.repo remi-glpi91.repo remi-glpi93.repo remi-modular.repo remi-php70.repo remi-php72.repo remi.repo CentOS-CR.repo CentOS-fasttrack.repo CentOS-Sources.repo epel.repo ius-archive.repo ius-testing.repo remi-glpi92.repo remi-glpi94.repo remi-php54.repo remi-php71.repo remi-php73.repo remi-safe.repo

And I'm not interesting with going through and commenting each and every one of these, one by one to find out which is broken.

IRJ

What does this return ? yum repolist

marcinozga

yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* && yum update

See if that helps.

DustinB3403

@IRJ

yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
epel/x86_64/metalink                                                                                                                                                                                                  |  17 kB  00:00:00
 * base: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
 * epel: reflector.westga.edu
 * extras: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
 * remi-php71: repo1.ash.innoscale.net
 * remi-safe: repo1.ash.innoscale.net
 * updates: centos.mirror.constant.com
base                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | 3.6 kB  00:00:00
extras                                                                                                                                                                                                                | 3.4 kB  00:00:00
ius                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | 1.3 kB  00:00:00
remi-php71                                                                                                                                                                                                            | 3.0 kB  00:00:00
remi-safe                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 3.0 kB  00:00:00
updates                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 3.4 kB  00:00:00
updates/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                                                                                                                                           | 7.4 MB  00:00:00
ius                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  829/829
repo id                                                                                      repo name                                                                                                                                 status
base/7/x86_64                                                                                CentOS-7 - Base                                                                                                                           10,019
epel/x86_64                                                                                  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                                                                                            13,343
extras/7/x86_64                                                                              CentOS-7 - Extras                                                                                                                            435
ius/x86_64                                                                                   IUS for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                                                                                                          829
remi-php71                                                                                   Remi's PHP 7.1 RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                                                                                425
remi-safe                                                                                    Safe Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                                                                                 3,553
updates/7/x86_64                                                                             CentOS-7 - Updates                                                                                                                         2,500
repolist: 31,104

DustinB3403

@marcinozga Getting this

sudo yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* && yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cleaning repos: base epel extras ius remi-php71 remi-safe updates
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/base/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/base/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/extras/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/extras/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/updates/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/updates/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/timedhosts’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/epel/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/epel/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/.gpgkeyschecked.yum’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/ius/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/ius/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-safe/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-safe/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-php71/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-php71/packages’: Permission denied

IRJ

I also think you may be looking at the wrong file.

In Ubuntu it is located here

/etc/apt/sources.list

You can also add sources by file here

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@marcinozga Getting this

sudo yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* && yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cleaning repos: base epel extras ius remi-php71 remi-safe updates
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/base/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/base/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/extras/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/extras/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/updates/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/updates/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/timedhosts’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/epel/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/epel/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/.gpgkeyschecked.yum’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/ius/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/ius/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-safe/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-safe/packages’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-php71/gen’: Permission denied
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/remi-php71/packages’: Permission denied

Need sudo for all 3 commands

DustinB3403

@IRJ Rebooting resolved it, at least now updates are able to be run.

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown):

@IRJ Rebooting resolved it, at least now updates are able to be run.

That doesnt make much sense to me. Did you try to update after cleaning cache?

marcinozga

@IRJ He couldn't clean it as visible in that screen. There was probably a zombie yum process somewhere locking cache files.

DustinB3403

@IRJ yeah, just restarting resolved it.

Not sure why or what was locked.

PS I just reran the cleanup process with sudo for all 3, so we shall see. But since updates installed previously there is nothing outstanding.

Solved One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown)