John Miller wrote:
Mika Penttilä wrote:
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?
An update to glibc-2.3.6-3 broke yum here. Reverting to
glibc-2.3.5-10.3 fixed it. Waiting to hear the ultimate fix.
I found the same problem here. Yum would no longer update, even wget
and lynx wouldn't work for anything but the simplest URLs. It seems
that I could download top-level files from sites but any URL with a
sub-folder in the path (such as
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml)
would fail. Downgrading to glibc-2.3.5-10.3 fixed it. Thanks for the tip.
HOWEVER, then upgrading (with yum) to FC5's glibc-2.4-4 broke it again.
After some time ldd'ing and straceing (I now see why Yum is slower
than molasses in winter, with all the python libraries), I found that it
didn't like my nsswitch.conf file.
Changing it thusly:
< hosts: files nisplus dns
> hosts: files dns
< protocols: files nisplus
> protocols: files
< services: files nisplus
> services: files
< netgroup: files nisplus
> netgroup: nisplus
fixed it, and I'm now happily upgrading my FC4 box to FC5.
Greg
