Strange things in Yum

[Paul Howarth]

Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 09:53:
> 
>> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:37 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 09:08:
>>>    
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:58 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>> Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 08:33:
>>>>>            
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:19 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>>>>>                
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>>                             
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>             
>>>>
>>>> Does:
>>>>
>>>> wget
>>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (that's one line)
>>>>
>>>> create a repomd.xml file in your current directory on this machine?
>>>>
>>>> $ wget
>>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml--08:07:38--  
>>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml 
>>>>
>>>>            => `repomd.xml'
>>>> Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com... 66.187.224.20, 209.132.176.20,
>>>> 209.132.176.220, ...
>>>> Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com|66.187.224.20|:80... 
>>>> connected.
>>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>>>> Length: 1,140 (1.1K) [text/xml]
>>>>
>>>> 100%[===============================================================>]
>>>> 1,140         --.--K/s
>>>>
>>>> 08:07:39 (8.93 KB/s) - `repomd.xml' saved [1140/1140]
>>>>
>>>> Paul.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>
>>> and of course from another computer on same network, wget works.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> But what about on the one where you're having problems?
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>   
> 
> You have missed my previous e-mail :-)
> No, it doesn't work.This is the output......
> 
> [root at Contec antoniomontagnani]# wget 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedo 
> ra/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
> --09:13:47--  
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/ 
> repodata/repomd.xml
>          => `repomd.xml'
> Risoluzione di download.fedora.redhat.com in corso... fallito: No such 
> file or d irectory.
> 
> 
> Output is in Italian, but fallito means failed!!!

The output from your wget seems to be less verbose than mine. In 
particular, it doesn't seem to show the "Resolving" and "Connecting" 
lines. I wonder if DNS resolution is working properly.

If you have bind-utils installed, what's the output of:

$ host download.fedora.redhat.com

Otherwise, try:

# ping download.fedora.redhat.com

Paul.