[Yum] Weird: IOError: <urlopen error (-2 Name.. but yumex works!!!

[Alan Robert Clark]

seth vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> and if you replace urlgrabber in the above command with 'wget'
> 
> what happens?

My apologies.

I should have mentioned that wget/firefox/ping etc all work flawlessly. 
I get the mirrorlist etc. Commenting out the mirror line in the repos.d, 
and reverting to the olde style baseurl instead does nothing. Yumex uses 
**THESE SAME** files!!! Oh, its marvellous!!!!!!

As I said I can happily add freshrpms/livna etc and yumex has performed 
beautifully, despite needing the occasional kill -9 to catch a hang :-). 
But it does work getting things!

Again, I believe the significance of my particular problem is the total 
lack of traffic (DNS or otherwise) on my interfaces....???

Thank you again for your reply. As I said, allergic as I am to all 
things pointy-clicky, I am relieved that something works! Why yumex 
works in the same environment that yum coughs, I have (as of yet) no 
idea (and I have spent a minute or two on the problem :-) :-) :-).

Thanks for your time

Alan


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