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All repositories baseos, appstream, extras not available. All repo have status code 503.

Rocky Linux 9 - AppStream                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:02
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'appstream':
  - Status code: 503 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-9 (IP: 199.232.198.132)
  - Status code: 503 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-9 (IP: 199.232.194.132)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 503 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-9 (IP: 199.232.198.132)

Rocky Linux 9 - Extras                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      0.0  B/s |   0  B     00:02
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'extras':
  - Status code: 503 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=extras-9 (IP: 199.232.194.132)
  - Status code: 503 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=extras-9 (IP: 199.232.198.132)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'extras': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 503 for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=extras-9 (IP: 199.232.194.132)
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https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=BaseOS-9 returns:

Timed out while waiting on cache-lon4272-LON

This is preventing dnf update from being able to run, amongst other things.

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Hi,
Same problem, unable to update, install or refresh cache.

dnf makecache
Node.js Packages for Linux RPM based distros - x86_64                                                                                                   48 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
N|Solid Packages for Linux RPM based distros - x86_64                                                                                                   50 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
Rocky Linux 9 - BaseOS                                                                                                                                 0.0  B/s |   0  B     06:03    
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'baseos':
  - Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=BaseOS-9 [Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds]
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'baseos': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=BaseOS-9 [Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds]
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Same issue here with Rocky 8 as well

Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘appstream’:

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Same here.
I commented all “mirrorlist” entries in rocky.repo and rocky-extra.repo and uncommented all “baseurl” entries to fix it for now.
dnf makecache and dnf update are working again.

sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/rocky.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rocky-extras.repo
:%s/^mirror/#mirror/g
:%s/^#base/base/g

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I use next commands for fix rocky.repo and rocky-extras.repo:

sed -i 's/^mirror/#mirror/' /etc/yum.repos.d/rocky.repo
sed -i 's/^#base/base/' /etc/yum.repos.d/rocky.repo

sed -i 's/^mirror/#mirror/' /etc/yum.repos.d/rocky-extras.repo
sed -i 's/^#base/base/' /etc/yum.repos.d/rocky-extras.repo

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It would be best to wait rather than overload the Rocky servers by switching to baseurl.

@nazunalika @neil any ideas?

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I rebooted the newly installed virtual machine with some routing packages and configure it: ipsec, frr, quaga. Everything works fine.

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Except when you have customers needing updates etc. to test a migration asap.

Anyway it would be nice if the team posted an update about this so this/other threads stay clean :wink: Commenting out the mirrors and activating the base url’s works like a charm for now.

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@neil is actively investigating this and I would expect a fix soon. Note that Mattermost is down too, same root cause.

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Also not working bugs.rockylinux.org ssl cert expired

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Mattermost is working again.

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Yep, hitting the same issue

**10:55:18** #23 372.5 - Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-8 [Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds] 

**10:55:18** #23 372.5 Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-8 [Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds]
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Everything should be back up now.

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