Hi,
Recently I have faced a problem with epel repository ad asked a question about that. That thread was messy so I decided to create a simpler scenario.

I have followed the instructions from http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/installing-rhel-epel-repo-on-centos-5x-or-6x and downloaded the rpm file. However the epel repository doesn't work for me. If I remove it, then everything is normal. Please see the commands

# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
--2014-01-02 11:07:27--  http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Resolving dl.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.181.23, 209.132.181.24, 209.132.181.25, ...
Connecting to dl.fedoraproject.org|209.132.181.23|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14540 (14K) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: "epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm"

100%[================================================================================>] 14,540      59.5K/s   in 0.2s

2014-01-02 11:07:33 (59.5 KB/s) - "epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm"




# rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:epel-release           ########################################### [100%]


# ls -1 /etc/yum.repos.d/epel*
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo


# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch/debug
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-debug-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1

[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1



# yum makecache
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again


# rpm -qa | grep epel
rpm epel-release-6-8.noarch


# rpm -e epel-release-6-8.noarch

# yum makecache
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * sl: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
 * sl-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
sl                                                                                                 | 3.5 kB     00:00
sl-livecd-extra                                                                                    | 1.4 kB     00:00
sl-security                                                                                        | 3.0 kB     00:00
Metadata Cache Created

 


So, how can I resolve the issue?

Regards,
Mahmood