On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 08:18 +0100, Joao Palhoto Matos wrote: > seth vidal escreveu: > > 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 > > > > > This is definitely OT but it occurs to me that a trivial improvement to > the Fedora infrastructure would be to have a few reliable mirrors of the > mirror lists (the ones for yum, not the ones for human eyes) ready for > times when a superman vilain, aka a Fedora release, strikes... Right now > the only options seems to be start guessing about a good mirror (which > my experience tells me is a rather strange function of time). Or you could check out the mailing lists and irc and realize that a simple change to your repo files can fix it https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-October/msg00278.html -sv
