Failed to execute "yum list": Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Question

OS: Oracle Linux 6

[xxx@host /etc]$ uname -a
Linux slc08yld 2.6.39-400.298.2.el5uek #1 SMP Mon Jan 22 13:08:39 PST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The error is that:

[xxxx@host /etc]$ yum list
file://localhost/tmp/common1/x86_64/redhat/50/base/ga/Server/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/common1/x86_64/redhat/50/base/ga/Server/repodata/repomd.xml'
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: base. Please verify its path and try again

The yum.config:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
metadata_expire=0


[base]
name=Red Hat Linux - Base
baseurl=file://localhost/tmp/common1/x86_64/redhat/50/base/ga/Server
#baseurl=http://pd-yum-slc-01.us.oracle.com/yum/OracleLinux/EL5/GA/x86_64/base/Server


#[updates]
#name=Red Hat Linux - Updates
#baseurl=file://localhost/tmp/common/AS4.0_u1_x86_64/RedHat/Updates
proxy=http://www-proxy.us.oracle.com:80

Could you please tell what the issue is?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

your repo is expecting to find its repository metadata in:

file://localhost/tmp/common1/x86_64/redhat/50/base/ga/Server/repodata/repomd.xml

but it does not exist in that path . first check the path and if the file exist and then clear your yum cache

# yum clean

it will also be good, if you enable DVD Repo instead