Alma 9.7 | epel broken?

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So, have a nicely functioning AlmaLinux 9.7 box, which I tried to update this morning. Normally, I use:

dnf check-update --refresh
dnf upgrade

This morning, once it hit epel, the system threw a slug of 404 errors - basically, couldn’t fiund any epel mirrors. Dozens and dozens of lines like:

 Status code: 404 for https://na.edge.kernel.org/fedora-epel/9/Everything/x86_64/repodata/24d0f197f268566f1fc7128d1005f337302cc13bf0df8177db9e20e2ed6a5293-primary.xml.xz (IP: 142.0.200.124)

Tried

 sudo dnf clean all 
 sudo dnf makecache
 sudo dnf upgrade

and various other ‘tricks’, but nothing seems to work.

Is there a general issue (that other folks are seeing), or is this something specific to my machine? If the latter, suggestions?

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Solved.

 sudo rm -rf /var/cache/dnf
 sudo dnf clean all
 sudo dnf makecache --refresh

Seems as if something went awry in the cache. Once I blew it away, and refreshed, all seems to work again.

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I’m having problems with EPEL too. I did the the steps under solved above but no joy.

I was trying to install KDE:

dnf groupinstall “KDE Plasma Workspaces” and get the message

Module or group “KDE Plasma Workspaces” is not available

This install was done using minimal iso on a VM. I guess I ought to open up another help request but this seems to be related - EPEL is messed up or something.

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It seems it was a temporary issue on the epel side.