> 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. > > -- cool, didn't know that either. good tip, thx paul. roger
