Starting this morning I'm getting errors checking for updates to packages with yum on Centos 7.6. When I run:
$ sudo yum clean all && sudo yum check-update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
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Cleaning repos: base epel extras google-cloud-compute google-cloud-sdk updates
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
Other repos take up 1.5 M of disk space (use --verbose for details)
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
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Determining fastest mirrors
epel/x86_64/metalink | 15 kB 00:00:00
* base: mirror.cogentco.com
* epel: mirror.steadfastnet.com
* extras: mirror.cogentco.com
* updates: mirror.cogentco.com
base | 3.6 kB 00:00:00
epel | 4.9 kB 00:00:00
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
google-cloud-compute/signature | 454 B 00:00:00
google-cloud-compute/signature | 1.8 kB 00:00:00 !!!
google-cloud-sdk/signature | 454 B 00:00:00
google-cloud-sdk/signature | 1.4 kB 00:00:00 !!!
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
(1/9): base/7/x86_64/group_gz | 166 kB 00:00:00
(2/9): extras/7/x86_64/primary_db | 200 kB 00:00:00
(3/9): epel/x86_64/group_gz | 88 kB 00:00:00
(4/9): base/7/x86_64/primary_db | 6.0 MB 00:00:00
(5/9): epel/x86_64/primary_db | 6.7 MB 00:00:00
(6/9): updates/7/x86_64/primary_db | 5.0 MB 00:00:00
(7/9): google-cloud-compute/updateinfo | 1.1 kB 00:00:00
(8/9): google-cloud-compute/primary | 3.6 kB 00:00:00
(9/9): google-cloud-sdk/primary | 100 kB 00:00:00
google-cloud-compute 10/10
google-cloud-sdk 705/705
Updateinfo file is not valid XML: <open file '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/epel/92f2e15cad66d79ea1ad327e2af7af89d98e4d153d7a3e27ff41946f476af5b4-updateinfo.xml.zck', mode 'rt' at 0x7f4a26819ed0>
So it looks like it doesn't like the EPEL updateinfo but... what can I do about that? How can I fix this?
I found this, but I don't understand how it might apply to me?
Edit: Apparently updates work, only check-update fails. Which is a nuisance because cron runs check-update hourly and my inbox explodes. But I can still run updates.
Edit 2: It appears maybe something is going wrong with EPEL at the moment and I have to adjust my cron jobs for now.
yum clean allor pointing to another mirror, then the error is most likely with EPEL itself, and you would need to wait until they get it fixed. It looks like you may be able to comment out themetalinkline in the EPEL repo config and uncomment thebaseurlto get it working until it gets fixed upstream. If none of that works, will need to disable the EPEL repo until they fix it properly.metalinkand uncommentedbaseurland it's still throwing the same error. I can update most packages by disabling epel like @Grump suggested...