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I am using two SL6.0 virtual machines on VirtualBox. I want to create a YUM environment. YUM server has been successfully created and the YUM client has also been configured correctly.

But when I run yum list all or yum install packagename* -y on the client, the following error shows up:

ftp://192.168.0.101/rhel6/dvd/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 7 - ""
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: client. Please verify its path and try again

In my attempts to solve this problem I renamed the default files sl.repo and sl-updates.repo to sl.repo.bak and sl-updates.repo.bak, thinking maybe the stuff inside them is creating problems, but to no avail...

I can successfully ping the server. The repo file is correctly configured. From what I have read on the net, this is a pretty common error, and occurs for no apparent reason.

How do I resolve this?

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  • Python errors are normally a result of changing the DEFAULT and REQUIRED version of python to something else by manually replacing it.Did you do something like that?
    – user1613360
    Aug 30, 2012 at 8:12
  • No I didn't do that.I think the error has something to do with my ftp connection.
    – user1633263
    Aug 30, 2012 at 8:17

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Check your Firewall settings to ensure FTP is not blocked.

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  • You are right the culprit is the firewall on the server side.Now it works.Thank You very much.
    – user1633263
    Aug 30, 2012 at 8:21
  • That's great.Please don't forget to close the question.
    – user1613360
    Aug 30, 2012 at 8:22

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