[vbox-dev] checksum error in RHEL 7 repo for Vbox 5.0.18

[Allan]

Hi Frank...



On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:19:09 +0200
Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com>
wrote:

> > 
> > Could you please take a look at that ?  
> 
> just verified: I could install VirtualBox-5.0-5.0.18 from that
> repository without any problem. Please try to refresh the metadata,
> perhaps doing
> 
>   yum clean all
> 
> before you continue.

I tried that, and even cleaning everything out of /tmp
and /var/cache/yum

it just ended uo giving me an even longer error - asking me
to remove virtualbox repo.

I have had this system running with Vbox since 4.3 , and never had
a problem like this, and none of my Fedora systems shows it either;
but this is the only Centos 7 box I have currently (just updated
this weekend)

Did you try a X86_64 system ?

Do Oracle perhaps have more than one mirror bhind that URL that fails ?

I tried to get that URL on another system (primary.xml.gz) and looked at
the contents. Besides being not really readable ( :-) ) I noticed that
the firste version number that is readable i 5.0 16 and everything
later seems to be lower - didn't look lige 5.0.18 is in there (just
by browsing).

I _think_ I have tried everything possible at my end; but I'm just
a linux newbee :-)

Here is the error from yum makecache this time, after clean up:

virtualbox                                                                                                                            |  951 B  00:00:00     
virtualbox/7/x86_64/primary    FAILED                                                                                         0.0 B/s |    0 B  00:00:00     
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum/s |    0 B  00:00:00     
Prøver et andet filspejl.
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.fysik.dtu.dk
 * elrepo: mirrors.coreix.net
 * epel: mirror.bytemark.co.uk
 * extras: mirror.fysik.dtu.dk
 * nux-dextop: mirror.li.nux.ro
 * updates: mirror.fysik.dtu.dk
virtualbox/7/x86_64/primary                                                                                                           | 4.6 kB  00:00:00     
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Prøver et andet filspejl.


 One of the configured repositories failed (Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-7 / x86_64 - VirtualBox),
 and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
 safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

     1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

     2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
        upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
        distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
        packages for the previous distribution release still work).

     3. Disable the repository, so yum won't use it by default. Yum will then
        just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it again or use
        --enablerepo for temporary usage:

            yum-config-manager --disable virtualbox

     4. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
        Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
        so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
        slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
        compromise:

            yum-config-manager --save --setopt=virtualbox.skip_if_unavailable=true

failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from virtualbox: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

  Allan.