Yum complains About baseurl

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 8/1/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 16:56 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 8/1/06, david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > > david walcroft wrote:
> > > > polka wrote:
> > > >> When I run yum I receive the following error. Has there been a change in
> > > >> the URL addresses?
> > > >> [root at localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install nedit
> > > >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > > >> Setting up Install Process
> > > >> Setting up repositories
> > > >> core
> > > >> [1/3]
> > > >> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> > > >> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > > Please post your 'core' repo including  yum.conf and the repo headings
> > > > in yum.repos.d
> > > >
> > > > david
> > > >
> > > Sorry I need the 'ls /etc/yum.repos.d' output'
> >
> > this error occurs when you have no internet access.  yum doesn't
> > provide a very useful error, unfortunately.
>
> Lonnie, i'm having the same problem, tossing email no sweat now, using
> firefox no sweat... it's yum alone complaining. I did nothing! I swear!

To elaborate, it happens when yum can't connect to the server.  In
most cases, that's cause you have no internet access.  In this
particular case, its because the server is b0rk3n.

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