[Yum] Not connecting to repositories

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Oct 26 06:48:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 00:41 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Joelle Tegwen wrote:
> > I'm not able to connect to the repositories. This just started recently 
> > and it's happening to me both at home (FC4) and at work (FC5).
> > 
> > I spent a great deal of time at home researching options and trying to 
> > update repository files all to no avail.
> > Since it happened to both machines at once I'm wondering if there was a 
> > conflict that was created in some automatic update (I have the auto up 
> > dater on for both machines.)
> [snip]
> > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras
> > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
> 
> This is a rather frequent occurrence. Yum uses a method of looking up
> hostnames (gethostbyname in Python) which often fails, even when the
> site is actually accessible.
> 
> Michael Stenner posted a suggestion to use /etc/nsswitch.conf (in reply
> to my post in February (see thread "Re: [Yum] dag repo problems"), but
> I wasn't able to work out what to do with it.
> 
Actually the above errors have nothing to do with yum.
They are because fedora.redhat.com is down right now and the mirrorlist
url is not accessible.

-sv





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