yum stopped working (fc4 & fc5)

[Mika Penttilä]

antonio montagnani wrote:

>2006/4/3, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
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>>Mika Penttilä wrote:
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>>>Mika Penttilä wrote:
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>>>>Hi!
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>>>>I found yum stopped working after recently doing a biggish fc4
>>>>upgrade, for instance glibc got updated (no repositories found ;
>>>>Cannot find a valid baseurl). I upgraded then to fc5, with same
>>>>results for yum. I suspect it might be nameresolver/glibc related
>>>>issue...Any ideas?
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>>>>Mika
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>>>Btw must be something name resolver related, for instance wget doesn't
>>>work without the explicit -4 flag...
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>>Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure it looks sane.
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>>Paul.
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>See this thread:
>FC4 -> FC5 upgrade problem: wget, yum etc. and ipv6
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>Antonio Montagnani
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I confirm that replacing nsswitch.conf resolved my problems as well. 
Some recent update surely messed this up...

Thanks,
Mika