antonio montagnani wrote: > 2006/4/3, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Why, oh why am I getting this mysterious message from yum >> on one FC-4 machine? >> ---------------------------------- >> [root@alfred tim]# yum update >> Setting up Update Process >> Setting up repositories >> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.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. >> ---------------------------------- > Check other messages sent short ago about nsswith.conf file that is > broken... Thank you. That was indeed the cause. I copied nsswitch.conf from an FC-5 machine to my FC-4 machine, and all was well. I had actually read (vaguely) about the problem with nsswitch.conf and had looked at the file, which looked fine to me. [I thought the file was going to be corrupt.] I did look (quickly) at the fedora-list archives, and didn't see the messages you mentioned - however, your brief posting was enough to put me on the right lines. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
