Yum update gives internal server error

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Hi all,

I try to update one of the live distro’s at a customer of mine, but it fails to retrieve mirrorlist.

[root@freepbx ~]# yum upgrade
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.sangoma.net/?release=$releasever&arch=x86_64&repo=os&dist=$dist&staging=$staging error was
14: HTTP Error 500 - Internal Server Error

when trying yum repolist it’s the same, allmost like there is no releaseversion added:
[root@freepbx ~]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.sangoma.net/?release=$releasever&arch=x86_64&repo=os&dist=$dist&staging=$staging error was
14: HTTP Error 500 - Internal Server Error
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
repo id repo name status
sng-base/$releasever/x86_64 Sangoma-$releasever - Base 0
sng-epel/$releasever/x86_64 Sangoma-$releasever - Sangoma Epel mirror 0
sng-extras/$releasever/x86_64 Sangoma-$releasever - Extras 0
sng-pkgs/$releasever/x86_64 Sangoma-$releasever - Sangoma Open Source Packages 0
sng-updates/$releasever/x86_64 Sangoma-$releasever - Updates 0
repolist: 0

Where should i start searching to resolve this?

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  1. Try again later.
  2. Validate DNS is working
  3. Reboot and got to 1
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After a week or so i opened my eyes and saw in my above post the following:
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.sangoma.net/?release=$releasever&arch=x86_64&repo=os&dist=$dist&staging=$staging error was
14: HTTP Error 500 - Internal Server Error

It looks like yum does not get the $releasever variable correct.

When i check yum version, this is the output:
Installed: $releasever/x86_64 421:34007c0e36da16a5d99891ea7962c335bb3439ec
Group-Installed: yum 12:ccb58bd78f060e730af300713473ec44f6277201
version

I also cannot do cat /etc/centos-release; it’s not there.

On a working machine this all looks correct and would work.

how would one look for the cause?

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