suddenly "yum update" fails on all my FC5 machines

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 8/2/06, Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since wednesday morning, on all my machines with FC5 "yum update" fails:
>
> yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> core                                                                 [1/3]
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
>
>
> OR:
> ===
>
>   yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> extras                                                               [1/3]
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras
>
>
> I don't know, why!!
>
>

Well I had the saem problem. The fix is easy. Uncomment the baseurl
lines in fedora-core.repo, fedora-extras.repo, and fedora-updates.repo
(all of which are in /etc/yum.repo.d)

The problem is that the mirrors pages are down. See:

http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-fc5
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-extras-fc5
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-updates-fc5

respectively.

When the page comes back online, you can just replace the comments.
ie. recomment the lines. There should be no real problem if you forget
to do that however.

Peace

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