On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Hi, > I don't know whats going on but yumex gives this error in FC5 > > "Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try." > > But this repo "[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/local-base" > > contains > > # planetmirror base > # > http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os > ftp://reddwarf:[password]@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > #ftp://reddwarf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > #http://premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > ftp://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > ftp://ftp.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist/fedora/5/i386/os/ Is this file referred to from somewhere else, such as fedora-core.repo? Where is the repo definition for the "base" repo (which is called "core" by default in FC5)? Paul.