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

[Alan Robert Clark]

Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> 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
> 
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Hi Tim

As I said to Seth, it all works. wget/urlgrabber/firefox all faithfully 
collect it!

Alan
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