On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Blair Smith wrote: > I've recently installed Fedora Core and have just learnt about Yum > (version 2.0.4). When I tried > > yum list available > > I was sent repeated "retrygrab() failed for:" messages and then > > "[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found:" Most likely your yum.conf is pointing to the wrong placei or the repos are simply unavailable. If you paste the url for the repo(s) in yum.conf into a web browser do you see the headers, etc.? If not you must fix that for things to work. > > I checked the Yum archives and one user had apparently fixed a > "retrygrab() failed" response by replacing an "http" with a "ftp" > somewhere in his 'yum.conf' file. But I could not find a similar > server, so I wouldn't know what server to change. Is this a common > problem with Yum or is there more lilely something wrong with my version? configuration problem. It is telling you it cannot find the repo(s). HTH, Tom
