Re: yum stopped working (fc4 & fc5)

[Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mika Penttilä wrote:
> Mika Penttilä wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I found yum stopped working after recently doing a biggish fc4 
> > upgrade, for instance glibc got updated (no repositories found ; 
> > Cannot find a valid baseurl). I upgraded then to fc5, with same 
> > results for yum. I suspect it might be nameresolver/glibc related 
> > issue...Any ideas?
> >
> > Mika
> Btw must be something name resolver related, for instance wget doesn't 
> work without the explicit -4 flag...

Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure it looks sane.

Paul.