On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:14:21 +1000 david walcroft <david_walcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > On 8/1/06, david walcroft <david_walcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> david walcroft wrote: > >> > polka wrote: > >> >> When I run yum I receive the following error. Has there been a > >> change in > >> >> the URL addresses? > >> >> [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install nedit > >> >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin > >> >> Setting up Install Process > >> >> Setting up repositories > >> >> core > >> >> [1/3] > >> >> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core > >> >> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core > >> >> > >> >> > >> > Please post your 'core' repo including yum.conf and the repo headings > >> > in yum.repos.d > >> > > >> > david > >> > > >> Sorry I need the 'ls /etc/yum.repos.d' output' > > > > this error occurs when you have no internet access. yum doesn't > > provide a very useful error, unfortunately. > > > > > I usually assume that being able to send an email indicates an internet > connection for the box in question. :-) > > david I had the same problem earlier today - for some reason fedora.redhat.com couldn't be resolved from the DNS servers. This caused the fetch of the mirror list in the fedora-core.repo to fail and that's the message you get. It now seems to have been corrected. Dave Gavin -- Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.... "Song of the Sausage Creature" Hunter S. Thompson (RIP 02/20/2005)
