Are you getting yum PycURL error 22 in between an important update?

Yum errors always need an immediate fix as it affects package management in the servers.

At Bobcares, we often get requests to fix yum errors, as a part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s have a quick look at yum. We’ll also see how our Support Engineers fix the PycURL error.

Reasons for yum PycURL error 22?

Yum aka Yellowdog Updater, Modifier is a popular package manager in Red Hat Linux. But yum works with the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM). Hence this works in the Red Hat Linux variant like CentOS.

In addition, yum also install dependencies of packages. But yum command often end up in errors.

Today, we’ll discuss the possible reasons for PycURL error 22.

The possible reasons are:

• Unsupported repository
• Misconfigured proxy server
• Yum cache

Now, let’s see the fixes for this error.

How we fix the yum PycURL error 22?

Our Support Engineers with expertise in Server Administration fixes yum errors quite often. Let’s see how we fix this.

1. yum error 22 due to unsupported repository

Recently, our customer had PycURL error 22 while yum upgrade in the CentOS system. Our Support Engineers re-executed the command to troubleshoot the error. The upgrade terminated at one of the repositories with an error message.

[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found." Trying other mirror.

Hence we checked the repo file. For this, we open the yum repo file. Editing these files need root access.

vi /etc/yum.repo.d

Further, we checked for the module which caused the error. And we disabled it.

But this didn’t fix the error.  So, we removed this manually.

Finally, we used the command to clean the yum.

yum clean all

And this fixed the error.

2. Correct the proxy setting

In some cases, the corrupted proxy configuration causes errors.

Today, proxy servers are important security measures. That is, proxy servers acts as a security layer between the server and the Internet.

So, our Support Engineers check the config file. We edit the config file as a root user.

vi /etc/yum.conf

Here we fill the proxy setting and save the file.

Some customers have subscription managers like RHSM. In such cases, we update the proxy setting in their config file. For instance, for RHSM we update the/etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file.

3. Clear yum cache to fix PycURL error 22

Similarly, a corrupted local machine cache can also cause PycURL error. To fix this, we clear the yum cache using the command,

yum clear all

If the error persists, then our Support Engineers clear the cache folder.

rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

Last but not least, connection errors or outdated OS versions can end up in errors. So, we check the system status and upgrade it if needed.

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Conclusion

In short, yum PycURL error 22 occur due to many reasons. The most common reasons are an unsupported repository, misconfigured proxy server, yum cache and system status. Today, we saw how our Support Engineers fixed this error.