On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 00:41 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: > 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. > Actually the above errors have nothing to do with yum. They are because fedora.redhat.com is down right now and the mirrorlist url is not accessible. -sv
