> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Domsch > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 23:12 > To: For users of Fedora > Subject: Re: is there a reason i can't retrieve a mirrorlist for yum > anymore? > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:01:26AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > suddenly, a few days ago, i started getting the following > > invariably: > > > > Setting up repositories > > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released- > fc6&arch=i386 > > error was > > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> > > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates > > > > i haven't messed with my yum configuration lately. thoughts? Yesterday I was getting the same thing, but from one newly upgraded host and not the other! I compared all the yum cache and config files and directories I could find and found no differences. On one box I had done 'yum install xemacs' which caused 6 packages to be loaded. On the other I had also but then had done 'yum remove xemacs' which only removed one package, I then removed the other two xemacs-specific packages. >From that moment on I had the same yum problem as posted above until I manually removed the other three packages and reinstalled xemacs. Then yum started working normally again! Maybe it was a fluke, but that was the sequence of events. -Tom
