Forward regarding mirrorlist failures and maybe we should fix that
contact email address from sysadmin-devel(a)rh.c to admin(a)fp.o
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-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de>
To: sysadmin-devel(a)redhat.com
Cc: seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org>
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(a)redhat.com 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