On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 07:49 +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > [snip] > > > > While installing erlang using yum its giving error . > > Not only install but update using yum is giving the same error. > > > > > > Initially it gave an error > > # yum update > > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > > Setting up Update Process > > Setting up repositories > > core [1/3] > > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core > > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core > > > > [1/3] > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repoda > > ta/repomd.xml > > <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repod > > ata/repomd.xml> : [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary > > failure in name resolution')> > > Trying other mirror. > > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core > > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to > > try. > > Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more > > mirrors to try. > > > [/snip] > > Vasantha, > > This is usually, if you have problems with your connection to the internet > itself or with dns-resolution. This is said with: 'Temporary failure in > name resolution'. Perhaps you ISP's dns-server was down at this time?? > > Do you get a reply on : 'host http://download.fedora.redhat.com'? If no, > check your /etc/resolv.conf, that there is an appropiate dns-server > entered, which resolves the fqdn's, then it should work fine...if yes, yum > should also work properly... Another quick test you can try is: curl -v http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml (that's all one line) You might get some useful diagnostics from that. Paul.
