[K12OSN] YUM Error
Eric Harrison
eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Sun Apr 17 18:15:52 UTC 2005
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Mike Kanfer wrote:
> I am trying to update a new install of Fedora 3. When I rnu YUM -y
> update, I receive an error that says..
>
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base.
>
> This is a new install. I have used these CD's on another machine and
> update works fine.
>
> Thanks for your help.
The config file this is /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
How this works is that yum retrieves the file specified in the mirrorlist
parameter (http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-3 for FC3)
and picks out one of the URLs to use as the baseurl.
If you can't fetch http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-3
it will get the "Cannot find a valid baseurl" error.
This likely to be a symptom of a problem, rather than the problem itself.
Try using wget to fetch the mirrorlist file:
wget http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-3
That may give you more useful error messages.
Double check that your DNS is correct:
host www.google.com
host fedora.redhat.com
-Eric
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