Troubleshooting YUM Repository Failures

Updated -

Overview

The yum utility will occasionally return errors when attempting to connect to repositories or retrieve their metadata. This article discusses various possible causes of these errors and how to address them.

These errors generally will be reported as output similar to the following:

# yum repolist
Updating Subscription Management repositories...

Subscriber exclusive content

A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase, tools, and much more.

Current Customers and Partners

Log in for full access

Log In

New to Red Hat?

Learn more about Red Hat subscriptions

Using a Red Hat product through a public cloud?

How to access this content