On 1/11/06, Michael D. Berger <m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On my newly installed FC-4, I am, without success, trying > > # yum list updates > > I have modified fedora-updates.repo and > fedora-updates-testing.repo in various ways. > > A sample follows. Other variations involved > applying the '#' to different lines. > > [updates-released] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > baserul=http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/ > > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$re > leasever/ $basearch/ > > #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$re > leasever > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fed > > Here are some diagnostics I have gotton: > > http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name > resolution')> > Trying other mirror. > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No more > mirrors to try. > > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Mike. > > -- > Michael D. Berger > m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx > The error output states, more or less, that "http://redhat.secsup.org/ ..." could not be resolved. Perhaps the server was down or your DNS server was screwed up. In any case I was able to display the file when I double-clicked the link. Why not try yum again?