Re: Yum update error message

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 14:48, Elaine Normandy wrote:
> I am running a clean install of Fedora Core 3 RC5, and would like 
> assistance on getting yum update to work.  My current error message is
> 
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repo:  base
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
> 

look in /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo and/or /etc/yum.conf for a [base] repo

see if there is no baseurl or no mirrorlist option under [base] 

if not, put one, if there is one, see what it is resolving to.

yum -d 4 [command]
will often help to know more about the problem.
-sv