Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again

Hi

When i run yum clean all and then yum update i get this:

Code:

Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again

Searching on the net i found that i have to update my SSL certificates and that https is teh problem but i don't want to run any command and then had problems with Centminmod so can anyone help please on what to run?

I found also this:

The Most Popular Problem occured when your Centos Operation System CLOCK not be correct
so https keys ( certificates ) goes down due to invalid time and date:

so i run date:

[root@server ~]# date
Tue Dec 30 20:45:39 EET 2014

It seems ok or i must dig deeper?

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Thanks

 

Code:

[root@server ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
priority=3
exclude=varnish

[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch/debug
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-debug-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1

[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1

I think the problem is not here as on my second server is working fine and i think it is the system clock and the https issue....

i try also this:

Code:

[root@server ~]# hwclock --show
Tue 30 Dec 2014 08:53:19 PM EET  -0.172121 seconds

And this it seems wrong as it should be now 20:53 instead of 08:53

Like this one as it seems ok:

Code:

[root@server ~]# date
Tue Dec 30 20:45:39 EET 2014

I am on Athens so i think the above is ok (not so sure for EET) but i think it is ok....

This one is giving me also the error can't resolve github.com when i try to wget the cenminmod zip but if i exclude certificates it works...

That's why i think the clock is the problem for the certificates....

Maybe that's why Korean nameserver is working as it is on another timezone?

Thanks for your help George !!!

Thanks

 

Ok i did it:

Code:

[root@server ~]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Cleaning repos: base epel extras mariadb rpmforge updates
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
[root@server ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Setting up Update Process
Determining fastest mirrors
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'"
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

Also this is what i get for wget the centminmod zip:

Code:

[root@server ~]# wget https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/archive/123.08centos7beta01.zip
--2014-12-30 21:05:39--  https://github.com/centminmod/centminmod/archive/123.08centos7beta01.zip
Resolving github.com... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address “github.com”

It has to do something with https and certificates and time....

I follow the tzselect tutorial and the time using date is fine:

Code:

[root@server ~]# date
Tue Dec 30 20:45:39 EET 2014

it looks not ok using:

Code:

[root@server ~]# hwclock --show
Tue 30 Dec 2014 08:53:19 PM EET  -0.172121 seconds

as it should be 20:53 and not 08:53 or not?

 

Can i run something like this without breaking Centminmod? :

Code:

yum upgrade ca-certificates --disablerepo=epel

or

Code:

yum update ca-certificates

Searching for a solution....

 

I run the second command but nothing

Code:

[root@server ~]# yum update ca-certificates
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Setting up Update Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'"
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

 

One last question as i don't know how but now it works.

If i use this:

[root@server ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="static"
DNS1="8.8.8.8"
DNS1="8.8.4.4"
GATEWAY="37.187.xxx.xxx"
HWADDR="0C:C4:7A:02:xx:xx"
IPADDR="37.187.xxx.xxx"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
NM_CONTROLLED="no"
ONBOOT="yes"
TYPE="Ethernet"
UUID="cb7ea12f-2ab7-45a1-896f-8ff948d7xxxx"
PEERDNS=no


Does the PEERDNS=no means that it will use the dns above DNS1="8.8.8.8" and DNS1="8.8.4.4" and not any from the /etc/resolv.conf ?

 

Ok well now it works without any issues with the above eth0 config (DNS typo also fixed)

All working great but i notice that after restarting network i am getting the OVH nameserver to my resolv.conf automatically and i can't test the Google's one :O

 

Ok thanks George

How can i allow always and never got blocked csf/iptables for any reason the new ovh nameserver ip: 213.186.33.99 ?