YUM Error

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

You may have gotten an answer to this so if you did please ignore.

The error is because you have an invaid URL to the repository. Check your /etc/yum.conf and make sure the uRLs listed there are still valid.

Bill

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:40:29PM -0500, John Moniz wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
> I have a PC I am setting up with FC4 for my son. Initially, I installed 
> RH7.3 (what a great distro). I had yum working and updated/installed a 
> few packages.
> 
> Then I upgraded to FC4. After the upgrade, I did a 'yum update' and a 
> huge number of packages were updated successfully, although I initially 
> had to get rid of a few packages (probably left over from RH7.3) because 
> of incompatibilties. All in all, yum successfuly downloaded and updated 
> over 600M of packages.
> 
> The next time I did a 'yum update', I got the following: "Error: Cannot 
> find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released" (or extras or anything 
> else)
> 
> I have spent hours trying different things, including re-installing yum. 
> I got lots of hits on google, but nothing I was able to use. Most tips 
> dealt with changing proxies (I don't use a proxy) or fixing the DNS set 
> up (it appears to be working when I ping a web site or use the command 
> 'host <www.whatever>').
> 
> I presently have another FC4 machine with the very same version of yum 
> and it works fine, so it shouldn't be the yum version that's the 
> problem. It seems that the problem might be the network, but I don't 
> know what.
> 
> Any ideas? If I can't get it fixed, it means re-installing FC4 from 
> scratch, then dumping it for another distro if it happens again.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John.
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