[Yum] Error using yum

Ashwini Dhiman ashwinidhiman at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 17:13:08 UTC 2009


>> Here's the entire error log for the update command
>>
>> http://fpaste.org/paste/6307
>
> Is your web browser set up to use a proxy ?
>
> That might be why it can get to various mirros, but yum cant.

Yes, the browser is set to use a proxy. Even the environment variable
http_proxy uses the same proxy setting as the browser.

>
> try a wget directly like:
> wget
> http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/10/i386/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2
> as an example.

The wget worked perfectly fine. It downloaded the bz2 package at
fairly nice speed.


> What about ping the ftp.jaist.ac.jp

The ping does not work. Gives the error
ping: unknown host http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/



Regards,
Ashwini


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