On 5/31/05, yufan <iamyufan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When i was tring to update a remote system by using yum,it returns an error > message: > yum update > Setting up Update Process > Setting up Repos > ftp://ftp.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/fedora/3/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> > Trying other mirror. > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. > > what's wrong with that? > Yum had a problem accessing the repo that you configured for "base". (Perhaps the repo was busy or down.) Yum, then, tried to use an alternate repo; however, there were no other mirrors defined in /etc/yum.conf or in /etc/yum.repos.d. The solution is to enable alternate mirrors for "base" in yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.
