yum/dnf error: Failed to download metadata for repo

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CODE-REaD picture CODE-REaD · Jan 30, 2020 · Viewed 79k times · Source

On my CentOS 8 server, many dnf and yum commands fail with this error:

Failed to download metadata for repo

This seems to apply only to repositories involving https connections, e.g.:

/etc/yum.repos.d $ cat epel-modular.repo
[epel-modular]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular $releasever - $basearch/pub/epel/$releasever/Modular/$basearch
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-modular-$releasever&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir
...

I have used wget to test connectivity to these sites and it is successful, e.g. wget https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org succeeds.

However, various dnf or yum commands fail:

$ dnf provides /bin/ls
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64     0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:00
Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel-modular'
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel-modular'

# dnf update --refresh
CentOS-8 - AppStream                                        20 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00
CentOS-8 - Base                                             19 kB/s | 3.8 kB     00:00
CentOS-8 - Extras                                          7.4 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00
CentOS-8 - PowerTools                                       20 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00
Remi's Modular repository for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64  4.1 kB/s | 3.5 kB     00:00
Safe Remi's RPM repository for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 3.6 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00
Wazuh repository                                           0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:00
Failed to download metadata for repo 'wazuh_repo'
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'wazuh_repo'

How do I resolve this problem?

Answer

nepalipunk picture nepalipunk · Feb 7, 2020

In my case 

sudo rm -r /var/cache/dnf

solved my problem.

Source: https://access.redhat.com/discussions/4222851

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