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sh-3.2# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: www.muug.mb.ca
* base: mirror.its.sfu.ca
* updates: mirror.its.sfu.ca
* webtatic-el5: us-east.repo.webtatic.com
* extras: mirror.its.sfu.ca
* addons: mirror.netflash.net
epel   | 3.6 kB     00:00
8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2    | 1.2 kB     00:00
http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/x86_64/repodata/8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -3] Error performing checksum
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure:
repodata/8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2 from c5-testing: 
[Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

CentOS release 5.3 (Final)

I can't find what is broken.

I've tried 'yum clean all' and adding new repositories.

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Please open:

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf

...and change 1 to 0 on the "enabled" option.

Then:

yum clean all

Also, instead of permanently disabling the fastestmirror plugin, you can add the broken mirror to the exclude line in:

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf

That's all you can do when you get errors from mirrors that are severely out of date.

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  • I tried what you suggested but it didn't work. Here's the output now: <br /> sh-3.2# yum update 8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2 | 1.2 kB 00:00 http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/x86_64/repodata/8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -3] Error performing checksum Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2 from c5-testing: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
    – C Thompson
    Jan 3, 2016 at 5:34
  • Having trouble figuring out Stack Exchange's formating. sh-3.2# yum update 8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2 | 1.2 kB 00:00 http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/x86_64/repodata/8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno -3] Error performing checksum Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/8596812757300b1d87f2682aff7d323fdeb5dd8ee28c11009e5980cb5cd4be14-primary.sqlite.bz2 from c5-testing: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
    – C Thompson
    Jan 3, 2016 at 5:40
  • Try with yum clean all --enablerepo="*"; yum update If that doesn't help you can skip the repo with the broken mirror via yum update --disablerepo="CentOS-Testing*" which is the one that causes the issue in your example. You can also check if the affected repo uses failovermethod=priority - in case it does, edit it and switch it to roundrobin as priority would cause it to fail and stop with the first miror that isn't working, roundrobin will just try to use the next mirror for that repo.
    – doktor5000
    Jan 4, 2016 at 8:18
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Well, I figured it out. Sort of.

I have another server where yum works fine. I looked at the repositories there and there were fewer than on the trouble server. So on the trouble server I deleted the 'extra' repositories, then did 'yum clean all'.

Now it works.

The repositories I deleted:

CentOS-Testing.repo
virtualmin-bleed.repo
webtatic-archive.repo
webtatic.repo
remi.repo
webtatic-el5.repo
webtatic-testing.repo

The repositories that remain:

CentOS-Base.repo
CentOS-Media.repo
epel.repo
epel-testing.repo
virtualmin.repo

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