I’m running the latest version of nexus, nexus-3.89.1-02, and since recently removing an rpm from our custom yum repository we’ve been getting errors when rebuilding metadata. The rebuild task states our repository is null with our repository depth set to 2 on the repository settings and when browsi…

Note a reversion back to our 3.87.0-03 build has fixed the issue with our metadata rebuild

[image] sam: Failed to rebuild metadata to identity if this is known issue with nexus-3.89.1-02 version I will need to confirm what’s the exception, the current logging level set doesn’t give us enough information. could you please set the logging level for this class to DEBUG? Steps Go to…

[image] Jacob Arcila Cardenas: org.sonatype.nexus.repository.yum.datastore.internal.createrepo.YumHostedMetadataFacet Here is the full trace. It looks like the rebuild is attempting to remove packages from the directories. Blockquote 2026-02-27 10:39:43,716-0600 DEBUG [quartz-12-thread-11]…

[image] sam: YumMetadataRebuilder Thank you for sharing the stack trace. I have filled a ticket internally for it.

Just curious if there has been any discovery on the provided stack trace

Sam, This bug should be fixed in our next major release, 3.91, planned for April.

I’ve updated to nexus 3.91.1-04 and I’m still seeing issues with the rebuild of our metatdata: 2026-04-22 12:45:14,444-0500 DEBUG [quartz-12-thread-13] *TASK org.sonatype.nexus.repository.yum.datastore.internal.createrepo.YumHostedMetadataFacet - Trying to remove RPM /8/x86_64/zenmap-7.98-1.noarc…

[image] SamJ: Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: ../sonatype-work/nexus3/tmp/filelist2333225115060907998xml.gz That error suggests that you have Nexus configured with a tmp directory it doesn’t have permission to write to.

Yum Metadata Rebuild Failed

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jzora (Jonathan Zora) March 18, 2026, 7:13pm 7

Hi, Sam,

This bug was triaged and is being tested this sprint. I’ll make it a point to update you when I know more.

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