Tales From A Lazy Fat DBA

Some time back I’ve got an error message with YUM even when the installation and configuration went successful.
Where it fails every time i called any of the YUM commands with error message “Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository”.

[root@Fatdba ~]# yum list
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Repository ol6_latest is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository ol6_ga_base is listed more than once in the configuration
ftp://obiftp/YUM_local/GDS/obi/6.1/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 502”
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base_el6_local. Please verify its path and try again

Solution:
Try the following sequence of steps to fix this problem.

$ sudo su –
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# rm -f *
# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo — This needs Internet Connection
# yum clean all
# yum makecache

Hope That Helps
Prashant Dixit