yum cannot find a valid baseurl for repo

Nader Mirzaee nmirzaee at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 26 20:09:30 UTC 2006


>         
>         El Miercoles, 26 de Abril de 2006 15:33, Nader Mirzaee
>         escribio:
>         [...]
>         > there was a # in front of baseurl ! 
>         > i removed it and now i have this : 
>         > [root at localhost yum.repos.d]# yum -y update
>         > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>         > Setting up Update Process
>         > Setting up repositories
>         > core 
>         > [1/4]
>         >
>         http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodat
>         >a/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: 
>         > known')> Trying other mirror.
>         > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core
>         > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more
>         mirrors to
>         > try. Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno
>         256] No more
>         > mirrors to try.
>         
>         I think you have a connection problem.
>         
>         Maybe it's a firewall between, or something wrong in your
>         connection.
>         
>         Can you ping at download.fedora.redhat.com ?
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ping gives me this strange and endless result??
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# ping download.fedora.redhat.com
> PING download.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.220) 56(84) bytes of
> data.
> 64 bytes from download.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.220): icmp_seq=1
> ttl=116 t ime=399 ms

Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf

If the "hosts" line is:

hosts: files nisplus dns

Try changing it to:

hosts: files dns

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i checked   /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts:files dns is already there.



			
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