How do I resolve the url timeout error when running a yum command?

Question

I'm trying to upgrade SVN 1.6 to 1.8. When I run the commands:

yum install mod_dav_svn subversion

I get the following error (after a short pause):

http://repo.andrewfarley.com/centos/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: andrewfarley. Please verify its path and try again

Of course going to that url does, indeed, timeout.

I've tried running these commands:

yum clean all
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb

However, the issues persist.

Solution 1

Dead repo. That's a non-standard repo that someone used to get some of your packages. I'd determine what's coming from that repo and disable it in the /etc/yum.repo.d/* .repo files for it. You can determine which packages came from this repo if you know its shortname.

Example

Say this was in the .repo file associated with that repo.

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

The shortname is the string in between the square brackets, [fedora]. So you can check like this:

$ yum list installed | grep '@fedora'
ORBit2.x86_64                2.14.19-9.fc20         @fedora                     
OpenEXR-libs.x86_64          1.7.1-6.fc20           @fedora                     
PyPAM.x86_64                 0.5.0-18.fc20          @fedora   

If nothing comes back then none of you packages are using this repo. In either case you'll need to deal with these packages either my upgrading them to newer ones from a newer repo or removing them.

New repo

Here's a repo that you can use for either 5 or 6 CentOS that provides SVN 1.8 + all the ancillary packages.

• http://tecadmin.net/install-subversion-1-8-on-centos-rhel/

Here's the x86_64 architecture of that repo that you can confirm definitely has the 1.8 mod_dav_svn package:

• http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/svn-1.8/RPMS/x86_64/

Solution 2

From my side, there was an http proxy set in /etc/yum.conf. So removing it solved my problem.

Comments

[eyoung100]

If I try that address in a browser, I get "Address not available." As a hunch, I would say that repo no longer exists.

[eyoung100]

To add: Pinging 209.237.233.80 4 Packets Sent/4 Lost. That repo is down and out....

[slm]

Dead repo. That's a non-standard repo that someone used to get some of your packages. I'd determine what's coming from that repo and disable it in the /etc/yum.repo.d/* .repo files for it.

[eyoung100]

Surely, after doing as slm suggests, you can find replacement repos that provide the same packages for all the ones that were in the dead repo.

[dcp3450]

running sudo vi /etc/yum.repo.d/* .repo shows an empty file...

[dcp3450]

I went to the vi /etc/yum.repo.d/ directory and have multple *.repo files: "andrewfarley.com.repo, CentOS-Debuginfo.repo, CentOS-Vault.repo, epel-testing.repo, remi.repo, utterramblings.repo, CentOS-Base.repo, CentOS-Media.repo, epel.repo, rpmforge.repo"

[dcp3450]

can I replace the url in the andrewfarley.com.rep with "tecadmin.net/install-subversion-1-8-on-centos-rhel"?

[slm]

I wouldn't do it that way. Just make a new .repo file and set that one to disabled.

[dcp3450]

I'm new and taking over a already setup repo, where can I go learn how to "make a new .repo, disable the current one, and point it to the new one"?

[slm]

The link I gave you has the contents of the file you need to create for the new repo. Just make a file in that directory w/ an approp. name. To disable a repo, add the line enabled=0. It's a good practice to leave the repos in place until you've completely disconnected them, then delete. That way other ppl understand the lineage of where pkgs came from.

[dcp3450]

ok, disabled andrewfarley, created a new .repo you suggested, and now I'm running 1.8. When I tried to start Apache I get the following error: "Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 242 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 7 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so: undefined symbol: dav_register_provider"

[dcp3450]

I've checked and /etc/httpd/modules/mod_dav_svn.so does exist

[dcp3450]

I found the httpd.conf file and these lines were commented out: "LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so, LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so" I uncommented them and Apache was able to start. Of course now my SVN repos can't be checked out now... lovely