Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
[root@ansible_awx yum.repos.d]# yum reinstall epel-release Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.vpshosting.com.hk * extras: mirror.vpshosting.com.hk * updates: mirror.vpshosting.com.hk base | 3.6 kB 00:00:00 extras | 3.4 kB 00:00:00 updates | 3.4 kB 00:00:00 Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package epel-release.noarch 0:7-11 will be reinstalled --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Reinstalling: epel-release noarch 7-11 extras 15 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Reinstall 1 Package Total download size: 15 k Installed size: 24 k Is this ok [y/d/N]: y Downloading packages: epel-release-7-11.noarch.rpm | 15 kB 00:00:00 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction Installing : epel-release-7-11.noarch 1/1 Verifying : epel-release-7-11.noarch 1/1 Installed: epel-release.noarch 0:7-11 Complete! [root@ansible_awx yum.repos.d]# ls CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-CR.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-fasttrack.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS-Sources.repo CentOS-Vault.repo epel.repo epel-testing.repo [root@ansible_awx yum.repos.d]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile 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 Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
Fixed by :
I solved this issue editing both
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
and /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
files, commenting all entries starting with mirrorlist=...
and uncommenting all the entries starting with baseurl=...
.
Source
stackoverflow