YUM Error

[wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org]

Quoting John Moniz <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>:

> 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.

My two cents: check the files in /etc/yum.repos.d and, in addition to making
sure they're enabled, make sure that the baseurl exists, ie. try browsing to it
from a web browser.  If not, try finding the correct one then replacing the line
in the repo file.  Running yum clean all might be a little help too.

Tom Watts
wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org


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