Hello Everyone, While this has been mentioned a few times on this list (it seems most recently here: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2006-April/008558.html ), I was not able to find the solution or "official" cause of the trouble. Here is the problem: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@www ~]# yum update Repository updates-released is listed more than once in the configuration Repository base is listed more than once in the configuration Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.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. [root@www ~]# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to yum, the following programs are BROKEN: wget, links, (howver lynx seems to work, perhaps because I built it from source) [root@www ~]# which lynx /usr/local/bin/lynx [root@www ~]# which links /usr/bin/links [root@www ~]# which wget /usr/bin/wget [root@www ~]# It has been previously suggested the updating glibc to version 2.3.6-3 may be the cause and that rolling that update back clears the issue up--however thats not an option for us. The trouble started right around the time that this upgrade happened. A previous post requested the following tests be run: [root@www ~]# wget "http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml"; --12:24:41-- http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml => `repomd.xml.2' Resolving mirrors.kernel.org... failed: No such file or directory. [root@www ~]# [root@www ~]# wget wget --inet6-only http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml --12:03:38-- http://wget/ => `index.html' Resolving wget... failed: Name or service not known. --12:03:38-- http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml => `repomd.xml.1' Resolving mirrors.kernel.org... failed: Name or service not known. FINISHED --12:03:38-- Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files [root@www ~]# [root@www ~]# wget wget --inet4-only http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml --12:17:36-- http://wget/ => `index.html' Resolving wget... failed: Name or service not known. --12:17:36-- http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml => `repomd.xml.1' Resolving mirrors.kernel.org... 204.152.191.39, 204.152.191.7 Connecting to mirrors.kernel.org|204.152.191.39|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,140 (1.1K) [text/xml] 100%[=================================================================================================================>] 1,140 --.--K/s 12:17:36 (12.64 MB/s) - `repomd.xml.1' saved [1140/1140] FINISHED --12:17:36-- Downloaded: 1,140 bytes in 1 files [root@www ~]# (Note normal wget fails, that ipv4 works, and that ipv6 does not) It was suggested that correct settings in "/etc/nsswitch.conf" might also fix the issue. Our file is dated Apr 26 2002, and contains the following: [root@www ~]# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # # # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be # sorted with the most-used services at the beginning. # # The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an # entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned # up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason # (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the # next entry. # # Legal entries are: # # nisplus or nis+ Use NIS+ (NIS version 3) # nis or yp Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP # dns Use DNS (Domain Name Service) # files Use the local files # db Use the local database (.db) files # compat Use NIS on compat mode # hesiod Use Hesiod for user lookups # [NOTFOUND=return] Stop searching if not found so far # # To use db, put the "db" in front of "files" for entries you want to be # looked up first in the databases # # Example: #passwd: db files nisplus nis #shadow: db files nisplus nis #group: db files nisplus nis passwd: files nisplus shadow: files nisplus group: files nisplus #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts: files nisplus dns # Example - obey only what nisplus tells us... #services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #networks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #protocols: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #rpc: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #ethers: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files #netmasks: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files nisplus rpc: files services: files nisplus netgroup: files nisplus publickey: nisplus automount: files nisplus aliases: files nisplus If bad settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf this is infact the issue, please post the settings that work. [root@www ~]# rpm -qa | grep yum yum-2.4.1-1.fc4 [root@www ~]# We are running Fedora Core 4. Any help is greatly appreciated. -John
