Yum error on rpmfusion

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Tue Dec 2 22:29:39 UTC 2008


Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> FC10/KDE
>>
>> I have the rpmfusion repo setup,but I get a yum error message:
>>
>> Could not retrieve mirrorlist 
>> http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorl...d-10&arch=i386 
>> <http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-10&arch=i386> 
>> error was
>> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for 
>> repository: rpmfusion-free-updates. Please verify its path and try again
>>
>> Does anyone not what know what is going on ??
>
> Can you resolve mirrors.rpmfusion.org:
>
>     [root at prophead ~]# host mirrors.rpmfusion.org
>     mirrors.rpmfusion.org has address 129.143.116.10
>     mirrors.rpmfusion.org has address 213.129.242.84
>
> If not, then your DNS isn't set up correctly.  Get that fixed and you'll
> probably be OK.
>
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I can Ping those two IPs without any problems so that would rule out DNS 
problems.
Am I right on that ??




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