Recently while running the dnf package manager in Fedora in order to update my packages, I encountered the following error:
Invalid configuration value: failovermethod=priority in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo; Configuration: OptionBinding with id "failovermethod" does not exist
Upon investigating this error further, I found that this parameter had to be removed from the different files which hold the repository information for the different packages installed in Fedora Linux. Here’s how to remove it:
Method #1
Go through all your repository files located in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and remove/comment out the line which contains failovermethod.
NOTE: You will have to either sudo or login as root in order to do this.
Method #2
Using the command line tool sed, we first start off by making a backup of the repository files:
sudo sed -iBAK '/^failovermethod=/d' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
We then use the sed command again to remove the problematic parameter in the repository files:
sudo sed '/^failovermethod=/d' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
Once you have used either methods, you can run dnf to check whether the error appears again:
dnf upgrade