On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:37 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 09:08: > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:58 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > > > >> Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 08:33: > >> > >>> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:19 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > >>> > >>>>>> 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. > >>>>>> > > > > ... > > > > > >>> Trying typing "env" immediately before running yum (i.e. as root) and > >>> see if there are any environment settings with names including "proxy". > >>> > >>> Paul. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Paul > >> > >> no proxy at env command!!! > >> And Synaptic is running o.k. > >> > > > > Does: > > > > wget > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml > > > > (that's one line) > > > > create a repomd.xml file in your current directory on this machine? > > > > $ wget > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml--08:07:38-- http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml > > => `repomd.xml' > > Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com... 66.187.224.20, 209.132.176.20, > > 209.132.176.220, ... > > Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com|66.187.224.20|:80... connected. > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > > Length: 1,140 (1.1K) [text/xml] > > > > 100%[===============================================================>] > > 1,140 --.--K/s > > > > 08:07:39 (8.93 KB/s) - `repomd.xml' saved [1140/1140] > > > > Paul. > > > > > > > > > and of course from another computer on same network, wget works. But what about on the one where you're having problems? Paul.