Strange things in Yum

Antonio Montagnani anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Mon Feb 13 21:46:59 UTC 2006


Dan ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 13/02/2006 21:55:
> I had a similar problem before when after many frustrating hours, was 
> the cause of a proxy setting in the env.
>
> try env command and look for HTTP_PROXY environment variable.
>
> If there is something there, then that maybe your problem.
>
> try unset that and rerun yum and see what happens.
>
> another test is to try connect to an ftp server using terminal ftp 
> client. That also throws error as it seems to read the same env 
> varibles used to defin a proxy as yum does. The different is it 
> provides better error message which helped me in the original situation.
>
> If it is the case, the next daunting task is to figure out what script 
> is setting the env variable :D
>
> also i think there are two env varibles one uppercase and one lowercase.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> On 2/14/06, *Antonio Montagnani* <anto.montagnani at virgilio.it 
> <mailto:anto.montagnani at virgilio.it>> wrote:
>
>     Paul Howarth ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on
>     13/02/2006
>     17:10:
>     > Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>     >> Antonio Montagnani wrote / ha scritto on /il 13/02/2006 09:49:
>     >>
>     >>> Thomas Springer ha scritto / wrote  il / on 12/02/2006 22:11:
>     >>>
>     >>>> Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:22 +0100 schrieb Antonio
>     Montagnani:
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> Tomorrow morning I will check the contents of /etc/yum.repo.d
>     >>>>> files and if corrupted I will copy from the working machine
>     to the
>     >>>>> router (it should be no problem): any other configuration
>     file to
>     >>>>> check?
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Maybe an increased errlevel will reveal sth of interest:
>     >>>> $ yum -d 9 -e 9 update
>     >>>> See yum manpage.
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Thomas
>     >>>>
>     >>>
>     >>> yum -d 10 -e 10 update
>     >>> Yum Version: 2.4.1
>     >>> COMMAND: yum -d 10 -e 10
>     >>> Installroot: /
>     >>> Setting up Update Process
>     >>> Setting up repositories
>     >>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>     >>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>     >>>
>     >>> I checked also yum configuration files and they seem o.k.
>     >>> What about $basearch or $releasever broken?? how do I see
>     their value??
>     >>>
>     >> I moved all *.repo files from working machine to my broken machine
>     >> and also yum.conf .
>     >> Results didn't change.
>     >>
>     >> I made another test using only this base repo file :
>     >>
>     >> [base]
>     >> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
>     >>
>     baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>     <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/>
>     >>
>     >>
>     #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
>     >>
>     >> enabled=1
>     >> gpgcheck=1
>     >> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
>     >>
>     >> and I got this result:
>     >>
>     >> yum -d 9 -e 9 update
>     >> Yum Version: 2.4.1
>     >> COMMAND: yum -d 9 -e 9
>     >> Installroot: /
>     >> Setting up Update Process
>     >> Setting up repositories
>     >> Baseurl(s) for repo:
>     >> [' http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4
>     /i386/os/']
>     >>
>     http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repom
>     <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repom>
>     >> d.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (2, 'No such file or
>     >> directory')>
>     >> Trying other mirror.
>     >> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base
>     >> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more
>     mirrors
>     >> to try.
>     >> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more
>     >> mirrors to try.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Any hint?
>     >
>     > Perhaps the broken machine has a proxy configured in the
>     environment
>     > or in /etc/yum.conf, and that proxy is broken?
>     >
>     > Paul.
>     >
>     This is my yum.conf file.I am surprised because the machine was
>     running
>     fine until thursday night.How can I check if a proxy has been
>     configured
>     in the enviroment?
>     Please note that I am writing from my Home router that is a sister
>     machine of office's network...Yum and Yumex are running o.k.
>
>     [main]
>     cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>     debuglevel=2
>     logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>     pkgpolicy=newest
>     distroverpkg=redhat-release
>     tolerant=1
>     exactarch=1
>     retries=20
>     obsoletes=1
>     gpgcheck=1
>     metadata_expire=1800
>
>     # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
>     # in /etc/yum.repos.d
>
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Dan

please note that Synaptic is working fine.
Has Yum a different way to manage HTTP_PROXY??

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