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I was helping an XO user to resolve a problem with yum failing on her system.<div>After trying it on my XO I discovered that the OLPC repositories are not responding. Hence yum errors out with a timeout.</div><div>I can fix this for he,r but that leaves the problem out there for all the hundreds of thousand other XOs. </div><div> Is this just a temporary outage? If not could a dummy responder be set up to prevent the yum time out, as this is a difficult problem for naive users to deal with.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[olpc@xo-4B-CF-4C yum.repos.d]$ su -c 'yum list gajim'</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">updates-newkey | 2.3 kB 00:00 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">primary.sqlite.bz2 | 4.1 MB 00:26 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">primary.sqlite.bz2 | 6.1 MB 00:41 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://mock.laptop.org/repos/koji.dist-olpc3-updates/repodata/repomd.xml">http://mock.laptop.org/repos/koji.dist-olpc3-updates/repodata/repomd.xml</a>: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Trying other mirror.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: olpc_development. Please verify its path and try again</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[olpc@xo-4B-CF-4C yum.repos.d]$ </font></div></div></body></html>