## TL;DR
All mirrors were tried means yum exhausted the mirror list without one successful fetch. Work it in order: clean the local metadata cache, test the baseurl or metalink directly with curl from the host, check proxy and DNS, and if the release is end-of-life, point the repos at the vault archive.

```text
yum update failed error all mirrors were tried
```

## Use this when
- yum update or makecache fails with Error: All mirrors were tried.
- The error follows a network change, a proxy rollout, or a release going end-of-life.
- dnf reports the same repo failing on every mirror URL it lists.

## Not for this skill when
- One package download fails with a checksum error while metadata loads. That is a package-level fault.
- The repo is an internal mirror that is down. Fix the mirror server, not the clients.

## Steps
1. Run yum clean metadata (or dnf clean metadata) and retry. Verify: fresh metadata downloads or the failure reproduces with clean cache
2. Take the metalink or baseurl from the repo file and fetch its repomd.xml with curl from the host. Verify: curl returns the XML, or shows the exact HTTP or proxy error
3. If curl shows proxy or DNS failure, fix the host proxy variables and DNS, or add the repo host to the proxy bypass list per your network standard. Verify: curl succeeds without manual workarounds
4. If the release is end-of-life and mirrors return 404 for the whole tree, rewrite the repo baseurls to the vault archive for that release. Verify: metadata loads from the vault URLs
5. Run yum update again. Verify: the transaction resolves and downloads begin

## Variant phrasings
### yum all mirrors were tried vault centos eol
The end-of-life variant that hit CentOS releases at EOL.
### dnf failed to download metadata for repo
The dnf-era phrasing of the same failure.
### yum makecache fastmirror failed proxy
The proxy and fastestmirror phrasing.

Compatibility: Compatibility: yum 3 and 4 / dnf on RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Fedora; vault archives for EOL CentOS releases.

## Why it happens
yum hides individual mirror failures behind one summary line, so the code tells you nothing about whether the cause is local cache, network, or the upstream disappearing. End-of-life releases are the classic trap: the day a release goes EOL its mirror tree is retired, and every client fails identically until the repos are pointed at the vault.

## Edge cases / pitfalls
- The fastestmirror plugin can keep selecting a dead mirror; disabling it is a valid diagnostic step.
- If curl succeeds but yum still fails, compare proxy handling: yum reads proxy settings from its config and environment differently than curl.
- Satellite or internal-mirror environments should never be repointed at public vaults; that is a content-management decision.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_zo_mcNCvHvmLdHQYB8tyxA

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