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

[Tim Lauridsen]

Alan Robert Clark wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>>
>> 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
> Nope. Edit/Preferences/General/Connection Settings/Direct Connection 
> to the Internet on Firefox. Like I said: its wierd :-)
>
I sounds very weird, yumex uses the same repo.baseurlsetup method in the 
yum api to load the mirrorlist that the yum cli does.
The only differens can be the timing, yum run the repo setup in a 
background thread.

have you tried this:

1.  ping mirrors.fedoraproject.org

2. urlgrabber http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=i386


Tim