Is a Repo down?

When I attempt to update my RazPi server, I get the following message:

Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'altarch-common':
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=aarch64&repo=rocky-sig-altarch-common-8 (IP: 199.232.194.132)
  - Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=aarch64&repo=rocky-sig-altarch-common-8 (IP: 199.232.198.132)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'altarch-common': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=aarch64&repo=rocky-sig-altarch-common-8 (IP: 199.232.198.132)

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Hi there. Sorry you’re having issues. Looks like we haven’t turned on this part of the mirror list yet. You can go into the /etc/yum.repos.d/ file for these particular repositories, comment the mirrorlist line and use baseurl instead for now… I think the Rocky-SIG-AltArch-RPi.repo file might be incorrect too (only if that exists), so you may need to change it (if not, this can be safely ignored for now):

baseurl=http://dl.rockylinux.org/$sigcontentdir/$releasever/altarch/$basearch/altarch-rockyrpi/
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this was the fix for me. thanks!

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Heya folks - Mirrorlist should be working for this repo (as well as the others) now!

Thank you for your patience :slight_smile:

Thanks again for addressing this issue!

Issue seems to be back?

Rocky Linux 8 - SIG AltArch Common              1.9 kB/s | 3.3 kB     00:01
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'altarch-common':
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-west9.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.149.52.168)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-southwest1.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.111.247.63)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-west4.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.160.140.254)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-west8.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.160.120.166)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-west1.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.149.97.148)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-west2.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.149.116.93)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-central2.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.120.99.98)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-west6.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 35.186.198.150)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-north1.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.160.62.158)
  - Status code: 404 for https://rocky-linux-europe-west3.production.gcp.mirrors.ctrliq.cloud/pub/sigs/8/altarch/aarch64/altarch-common/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 107.178.245.7)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'altarch-common': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

Those appear to be almalinux related. You may want to ask their community about the issue.

Figures… It’s been one of ‘those’ days. Thankfully, I’m neither a nuclear scientist nor a brain surgeon… Apologies.

Looks like the mirrors are down again?

In Firefox https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist gives

503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request. 

And my yum updates are timing out.

The mirror list is operating normally. See below.

there was a brief outage due to a job running out of control yesterday. This happens often during releases due to the sheer quantity of files we have to look at when updating the mirrorlist directory. I made some tuning changes yesterday to help it stay up :slight_smile:

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