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

Diego Martinez admar505 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 13:47:44 UTC 2007


no!  and I just checked all the dependencies, so I am pretty sure that I did
not somehow break python,
sooooo, I am still clueless.

thanks for replying!

Diego

On 9/8/07, Tim Lauridsen <tla at rasmil.dk> wrote:
>
>  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_64error 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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