OK guys - what happened to YUM

[jdow]

From: "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, jdow wrote:
>
>> Is it really this fragile that within 24 hours it goes from working to 
>> this:
>>
>> ===8<---
>> # yum update
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>> ===8<---
>>
>> What do I need to fix? This is the /etc/yum.repos.d directory:
>> ===8<--- (All dated Jun 3)
>> # ls /etc/yum.repos.d
>> fedora-devel.repo         fedora-extras.repo  fedora-updates.repo
>> fedora-extras-devel.repo  fedora.repo         fedora-updates-testing.repo
>> ===8<---
>>
>> yum.conf and other yum files are even older.
>>
>> The /var/cache/yum files seem to be consistent with an update yesterday.
>>
>> I have made no changes myself to these files or to yum.conf. So something 
>> went
>> bad. I'd rather like to get it working again.
>
> It's working here now, but I saw this last night.  Turned out the server 
> where the mirror lists are kept was down for maintenance.
>
> Not a very informative way to fail, but I don't think it's your fault.
>
> BTW, I'm seeing your message in a digest, but it's about 24 hours behind 
> when you sent it.

Yeah, servers went down at just about the time I tried. I tried several
times and then sent a question to the list. And it seems they stayed
down a LOOOOOONG time. I'd not caught any notice they were going to go
down. Ah well.
{^_^}