[Yum] ahh! painful error! [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>

[Tim Lauridsen]

Diego Martinez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having massive trouble with yum, before and after upgrade to fedora 7
>
> here is the output:
> >yum update yumex
> Setting up Update Process
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist 
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-7&arch=x86_64 
> <http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-7&arch=x86_64> 
> error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> http://mirror.nuvio.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: 
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora
>
>
> I know I am pointing at a certain repository, but it is sane, and if I 
> use the mirror list, and cant read it, with a similar error - that is 
> the first set.  so it kind of looks like there is some communication 
> error, but I have no clue why.  this happens with or without the 
> firewall, and the urls work - I am totally stuck!  this is the first 
> time in >10yrs of using linux I have had a problem I cannot fix myself!
>
> I appreciate any suggestions!  Thank you!
>
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Are you using a proxy ??

Tim

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