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

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 19:25 +0200, Alan Robert Clark wrote:
> 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 :-) :-) :-).
> 

which is why I asked if there was a proxy definition involved somewhere
b/c it might be being picked up  by those other applications (and maybe
by yumex) but not by yum.

-sv