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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