Forward regarding mirrorlist failures and maybe we should fix that contact email address from sysadmin-devel@xxxx to admin@xxxx -sv -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> To: sysadmin-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:51:38 +0100 Accessing http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist returns this: <snip> Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, sysadmin-devel@xxxxxxxxxx and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. ________________________________________________________________________ Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora) Server at app3.fedora.phx.redhat.com Port 80 </snip> With http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist being the default and central bottleneck in fedora configuations, this probably affects all fedora users world-wide, who are trying to use yum: # yum update ... Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again # repoquery -q --whatrequires 'perl(File::NCopy)' Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again # date -u Tue Nov 27 04:51:27 UTC 2007 Ralf _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
