Yum install commands failing intermittently

Rocky Linux Help & Support
1

We see this error during installation of unzip package

yum install unzip -y
Rocky Linux 8 - AppStream 2.4 MB/s | 20 MB 00:08
Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘appstream’:

2

Try:

dnf clean all
dnf install unzip

it will clear and refresh repodata and perhaps sync with a better mirror.

3

We also faced this problem. It looks like this is the mirror that serves outdated repomd.xml files:

https://rocky.mirror.shastacoe.net/rocky/8.10/AppStream/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml

<repomd xmlns="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/repo" xmlns:rpm="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/rpm">
<revision>8</revision>
<tags>
<distro cpeid="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:8">Rocky Linux 8</distro>
</tags>
<data type="primary">
<checksum type="sha256">a071b89b13bafa3922b68309ff5913e06d0272e3766945ec66821e7f85d77906</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">5d6af51906b5a45c96ace75bc3d0acfede168dea309563581dbde8294552af6c</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/a071b89b13bafa3922b68309ff5913e06d0272e3766945ec66821e7f85d77906-primary.xml.gz"/>
<timestamp>1758100721</timestamp>
<size>2972656</size>
<open-size>36525705</open-size>
</data>
<data type="filelists">
<checksum type="sha256">18d549d235f34264d39410d322b54efb2073a0905f1e4ff08bea56ee5b3e6d21</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">e2709767b5c88a81023bc4a449de79b5a124e1f16e54af356766e6d51edf3cc3</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/18d549d235f34264d39410d322b54efb2073a0905f1e4ff08bea56ee5b3e6d21-filelists.xml.gz"/>
<timestamp>1758100721</timestamp>
<size>16392283</size>
<open-size>249192600</open-size>
</data>
<data type="other">
<checksum type="sha256">b8ddf1e4b154afde13e2e107fc0452d3f77e47af96a086785b59b0cd72f833ce</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">83f3217c7ee5ef5703ba1207f213320b58dec32757bec03f64972361855d703e</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/b8ddf1e4b154afde13e2e107fc0452d3f77e47af96a086785b59b0cd72f833ce-other.xml.gz"/>
<timestamp>1758100721</timestamp>
<size>1834991</size>
<open-size>27838187</open-size>
</data>
<data type="primary_db">
<checksum type="sha256">4364a655521dbb5a9d662d3cbbb60c0932d4d3420e7c8b1f59711db0e1fc73a4</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">bca06b6770f262580bb9d5f89aa154a5e6f7993f43dadd24859c4cb5adef4ac0</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/4364a655521dbb5a9d662d3cbbb60c0932d4d3420e7c8b1f59711db0e1fc73a4-primary.sqlite.xz"/>
<timestamp>1758100736</timestamp>
<size>5094996</size>
<open-size>39047168</open-size>
<database_version>10</database_version>
</data>
<data type="filelists_db">
<checksum type="sha256">ce9c5203d0041d1af4efc338374a3b84d577b66e09a3f4cf75e71e5af7ad3897</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">33d2957b1c78347b15b1bea594605685c9f168bd4fbf7fc54f18a94445fb3ff9</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/ce9c5203d0041d1af4efc338374a3b84d577b66e09a3f4cf75e71e5af7ad3897-filelists.sqlite.xz"/>
<timestamp>1758100747</timestamp>
<size>8693804</size>
<open-size>108539904</open-size>
<database_version>10</database_version>
</data>
<data type="other_db">
<checksum type="sha256">0ca84e5c4387678f89e42e71ca840539516bcdea31fd68b7bb33f590262b84b4</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">bc4209e2167b56bedfc988a50ec21b71e6e947ad10b4170777663bbe61e76309</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/0ca84e5c4387678f89e42e71ca840539516bcdea31fd68b7bb33f590262b84b4-other.sqlite.xz"/>
<timestamp>1758100728</timestamp>
<size>2175444</size>
<open-size>24793088</open-size>
<database_version>10</database_version>
</data>
<data type="group">
<checksum type="sha256">ec2fa1982439f4b0ca7dc86f882f18657457a2d42f06ac6718298c7f7528df43</checksum>
<location href="repodata/ec2fa1982439f4b0ca7dc86f882f18657457a2d42f06ac6718298c7f7528df43-comps-AppStream.x86_64.xml"/>
<timestamp>1758100605</timestamp>
<size>486316</size>
</data>
<data type="group_xz">
<checksum type="sha256">7ba43f88671d8107d6603ebff822fc071e73596a1e20779855af577b0e6e343a</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">ec2fa1982439f4b0ca7dc86f882f18657457a2d42f06ac6718298c7f7528df43</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/7ba43f88671d8107d6603ebff822fc071e73596a1e20779855af577b0e6e343a-comps-AppStream.x86_64.xml.xz"/>
<timestamp>1758100721</timestamp>
<size>81840</size>
<open-size>486316</open-size>
</data>
<data type="modules">
<checksum type="sha256">fd61b328a631a56e0f7ee145dc4cf759b24b9a5ec6892c8c692d561f22117714</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">85d4a2b3658919a1da44095b826546b3facad24bbe13700f149300c1832ea93a</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/fd61b328a631a56e0f7ee145dc4cf759b24b9a5ec6892c8c692d561f22117714-modules.yaml.xz"/>
<timestamp>1758101506</timestamp>
<size>100552</size>
<open-size>1647540</open-size>
</data>
<data type="updateinfo">
<checksum type="sha256">d2061dd1f9dea0d96f1813bad3309ef7f857f1ec28d965bffad76a72511f8024</checksum>
<open-checksum type="sha256">138a3252210e573a32a0915b097c19c72a00cf5ea317e9bbfadbae7153684e6f</open-checksum>
<location href="repodata/d2061dd1f9dea0d96f1813bad3309ef7f857f1ec28d965bffad76a72511f8024-updateinfo.xml.gz"/>
<timestamp>1758102277</timestamp>
<size>1118139</size>
<open-size>8110507</open-size>
</data>
</repomd>

And this mirror does not serve files that it returns in the repomd.xml. The file is from the 17th of Sep:

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The same problem with BaseOS:

https://rocky.mirror.shastacoe.net/rocky/8.10/BaseOS/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml

4

we are also facing increased failures since a week in rebuilding our docker images based on RL9/RL8.

The automatic mirror list (mirrors.rockylinux.org) is probably returning out of sync mirror and that’s especially a pain when building docker images because I can’t simply “clean all and retry again”.