<div>On 11/02/07, arnuld <<a href="mailto:geek.arnuld@gmail.com">geek.arnuld@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > [root localhost unix]# yum check-update > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Setting up repositories > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > <a href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mi...ore-6&arch=i386"> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mi...ore-6&arch=i386</a> error was > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core > [root localhost unix]# >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > with Firefox my internet is working fine, what is the trouble now? > Hi ! hi > I don't think ability/inability to accessing internet with firefox has > anything to do with this. ok > go to /etc/yum.repos.d as root and carefully > check all the .repo files, specially fedora-core.repo. the enabled > flag should be 1; i.e. enabled=1 > and there shouldn't be a hash sign before mirrorlist sentence. > check for the rest of the repos. also, leave the > fedora-development.repo as it is, otherwise your FC6 will become > rawhide, i suppose :) yes, i checked all, here is what i have found: 1. there are 3 types of things in any repo: [core], [core-debuginfo] & [core-source] 2. [core] is enabled in all repos whereas the other 2 are disables in all repos 3. in every repo, "baseurl" is commented-out (with #) whereas "mirrorlist" is not. amit, now what? -- <a href="http://arnuld.blogspot.com/">http://arnuld.blogspot.com/</a> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> Uncomment the baseurl line. -- David Hunter