Joelle Tegwen wrote: > I'm not able to connect to the repositories. This just started recently > and it's happening to me both at home (FC4) and at work (FC5). > > I spent a great deal of time at home researching options and trying to > update repository files all to no avail. > Since it happened to both machines at once I'm wondering if there was a > conflict that was created in some automatic update (I have the auto up > dater on for both machines.) [snip] > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates This is a rather frequent occurrence. Yum uses a method of looking up hostnames (gethostbyname in Python) which often fails, even when the site is actually accessible. Michael Stenner posted a suggestion to use /etc/nsswitch.conf (in reply to my post in February (see thread "Re: [Yum] dag repo problems"), but I wasn't able to work out what to do with it. ///Peter
