On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:19 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > Paul Howarth ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on 13/02/2006 > 17:10: > > Antonio Montagnani wrote: > >> Antonio Montagnani wrote / ha scritto on /il 13/02/2006 09:49: > >> > >>> Thomas Springer ha scritto / wrote il / on 12/02/2006 22:11: > >>> > >>>> Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:22 +0100 schrieb Antonio Montagnani: > >>>> > >>>>> Tomorrow morning I will check the contents of /etc/yum.repo.d > >>>>> files and if corrupted I will copy from the working machine to the > >>>>> router (it should be no problem): any other configuration file to > >>>>> check? > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Maybe an increased errlevel will reveal sth of interest: > >>>> $ yum -d 9 -e 9 update > >>>> See yum manpage. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Thomas > >>>> > >>> > >>> yum -d 10 -e 10 update > >>> Yum Version: 2.4.1 > >>> COMMAND: yum -d 10 -e 10 > >>> Installroot: / > >>> Setting up Update Process > >>> Setting up repositories > >>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released > >>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released > >>> > >>> I checked also yum configuration files and they seem o.k. > >>> What about $basearch or $releasever broken?? how do I see their value?? > >>> > >> I moved all *.repo files from working machine to my broken machine > >> and also yum.conf . > >> Results didn't change. > >> > >> I made another test using only this base repo file : > >> > >> [base] > >> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > >> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > >> > >> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever > >> > >> enabled=1 > >> gpgcheck=1 > >> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > >> > >> and I got this result: > >> > >> yum -d 9 -e 9 update > >> Yum Version: 2.4.1 > >> COMMAND: yum -d 9 -e 9 > >> Installroot: / > >> Setting up Update Process > >> Setting up repositories > >> Baseurl(s) for repo: > >> ['http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4 /i386/os/'] > >> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repom > >> d.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (2, 'No such file or > >> directory')> > >> 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. > >> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more > >> mirrors to try. > >> > >> > >> Any hint? > > > > Perhaps the broken machine has a proxy configured in the environment > > or in /etc/yum.conf, and that proxy is broken? > > > > Paul. > > > This is my yum.conf file.I am surprised because the machine was running > fine until thursday night.How can I check if a proxy has been configured > in the enviroment? > Please note that I am writing from my Home router that is a sister > machine of office's network...Yum and Yumex are running o.k. > > [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 > metadata_expire=1800 > > # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo > # in /etc/yum.repos.d Nothing wrong with that file. Trying typing "env" immediately before running yum (i.e. as root) and see if there are any environment settings with names including "proxy". Paul.