Strange things in Yum

[Antonio Montagnani]

Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 08:33:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:19 +0100, Antonio Montagnani 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/$basearch/os/ 
>>>>
>>>> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$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 
>>>> 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
>>     
>
> Nothing wrong with that file.
>
> Trying typing "env" immediately before running yum (i.e. as root) and
> see if there are any environment settings with names including "proxy".
>
> Paul.
>
>   
Paul

no proxy at env command!!!
And Synaptic is running o.k.

-- 
Antonio 
Skype: antoniomontag

==========================================================
Mail by Thunderbird 1.5 Websurfing by Firefox 1.5
==========================================================
Linux Fedora Core 4 on Maxdata Eco 3200
Linux user number 362582
==========================================================