A few days ago I was updating one of my personal dedicated servers and I got this weird error: Yum Error: Timeout on repomd.xml. Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds. The full output was something like this:
[[email protected]:~]yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Setting up Update Process Determining fastest mirrors epel/metalink | 24 kB 00:00 * base: centos.hyve.com * elrepo: mirrors.coreix.net * epel: mirrors.coreix.net * extras: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net * updates: centos.hyve.com http://centos.hyve.com/6.8/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://centos.hyve.com/6.8/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds')
It seems the mirror was really slow, and yum keep trying to connect again:
Trying other mirror. base | 3.7 kB 00:00 base/primary_db | 4.7 MB 00:00 elrepo | 2.9 kB 00:00 elrepo/primary_db | 730 kB 00:00 epel | 4.3 kB 00:00 epel/primary_db | 5.9 MB 00:00 extras | 3.4 kB 00:00 extras/primary_db | 37 kB 00:00 http://centos.hyve.com/6.8/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://centos.hyve.com/6.8/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transfered the last 30 seconds') Trying other mirror. updates | 3.4 kB 00:00 updates/primary_db | 3.1 MB 00:00 No Packages marked for Update
In order to fix this, I had to edit CentOS base repo:
nano -w /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
And comment out the mirror lines, like this:
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra
Then cleaned up the yum repo and ran update again:
yum clean all yum update
CentOS updates are now working again 🙂