I've just installed Fedora 6 and am having problems getting YUM and Software Updater to work properly. For instance, the extract below shows the "Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core" error which is exactly the same error I get with Software Updated:
[root@ukl20943l etc]# su -c 'yum grouplist' Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories Could not retrieve mirrorlist [url]http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=i386%5B/url] error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:18:22PM +0000, Yvonne Everett wrote:
I've just installed Fedora 6 and am having problems getting YUM and Software Updater to work properly. For instance, the extract below shows the "Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core" error which is exactly the same error I get with Software Updated:
[root@ukl20943l etc]# su -c 'yum grouplist' Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories Could not retrieve mirrorlist [url]http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=i386%5B/url] error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
Well, visiting the url you give gives back a Service Temporarily Unavailable (503) message...
So, err, they've broken the script to list mirrors. Oops.
So, you can edit the files in /etc/repos.d and set a baseurl in place of the mirror thing and point it somewhere like: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/lin...
And then yum update and hope a lot...
(note: I don't run fedora, I'm going based on CentOS, which we run on a couple of servers here to test one of our $products).
Cheers,
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Brett Parker -
Yvonne Everett