Re: "yum update" problem in FC4

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Joachim Backes [RHRK] wrote:
Hi,

suddenly, no more "yum update" is possible:

yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/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: Extras
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from Extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from Extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

/etc/yum.conf:
--------------------------- snip -----------------------
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
exclude=kernel* tetex*

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

[Extras]
name=Fedora Extras
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
--------------------------- snip -----------------------

Any advice?

Regards Joachim Backes


Hi, found out the reason: in /etc/nsswitch.conf, I replaced the line

	hosts:      files nisplus dns

by

	hosts:      files dns

Now, "yum update" runs again.

Don't know, how the nisplus entry came into the hosts line.

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University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing,
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