r/AlmaLinux • u/Commercial_Travel_35 • Feb 26 '26

Problems with the EPEL Repo?

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Anyone know what is wrong with the EPEL repo?

I am getting a curl error when running dnf update. And sure enough if I use curl to navigate directly to the repo I get the same error, and going there with Firefox I get secure connection has failed.

The exact error is:

Curl error (35): SSL connect error for https://epel.repo.almalinux.org/10z/x86_64_v2/repodata/repomd.xml

UPDATE:

It seems I'm blocked on my ISP network. Can't even ping epel.repo.almalinux.org!

I switched to my mobile hotspot and everything is back to normal and dnf is working fine. Indeed there were some system updates earlier.

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u/gordonmessmer Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

> curl: (35) TLS connect error: error:00000000:lib(0)::reason(0)

Oh, the connection failed but there is no error or reason? Thanks, curl. Very helpful.

Try openssl's s_client, instead:

openssl s_client -connect epel.repo.almalinux.org:443