{"id":6671,"date":"2022-03-26T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2022-03-26T21:14:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T15:44:01","slug":"failed-to-download-metadata-for-repo-appstream-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/failed-to-download-metadata-for-repo-appstream-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed to download metadata for repo \u2018AppStream\u2019 [CentOS]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I got the above error when I tried to run “yum update”. Below is the complete error. I got this error on centos-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[root@hostname ~]# yum update\nCentOS-8 - AppStream 70 B\/s | 38 B 00:00\nError: Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Output from the\u00a0\/var\/log\/dnf.log<\/code>\u00a0for more DEBUG information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022-02-02T11:39:36Z DEBUG error: Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http:\/\/mirrorlist.centos.org\/?release=8&arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream&infra=stock [Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org] (http:\/\/mirrorlist.centos.org\/?release=8&arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream&infra=stock).\n2022-02-02T11:39:36Z WARNING Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'AppStream':\n- Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http:\/\/mirrorlist.centos.org\/?release=8&arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream&infra=stock [Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org]\n2022-02-02T11:39:36Z DDEBUG Cleaning up.\n2022-02-02T11:39:36Z SUBDEBUG\nTraceback (most recent call last):\nFile \"\/usr\/lib\/python3.6\/site-packages\/dnf\/repo.py\", line 573, in load\nret = self._repo.load()\nFile \"\/usr\/lib64\/python3.6\/site-packages\/libdnf\/repo.py\", line 394, in load\nreturn _repo.Repo_load(self)\nRuntimeError: Failed to download metadata for repo 'AppStream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (6): Couldn't resolve host name for http:\/\/mirrorlist.centos.org\/?release=8&arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream&infra=stock [Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org]<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
I have followed the below steps to fix the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step:1<\/strong>:- Go to the\u00a0\/etc\/yum.repos.d\/<\/code>\u00a0directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[root@hostname ~]# cd \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step:2<\/strong>:- Run the below commands<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[root@hostname ~]# sed -i 's\/mirrorlist\/#mirrorlist\/g' \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/CentOS-*<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
[root@hostname ~]# sed -i 's|#baseurl=http:\/\/mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http:\/\/vault.centos.org|g' \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/CentOS-*<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step:3:-<\/strong> Now run the yum update<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[root@hostname ~]# yum update -y<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
After this issue was resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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