<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000099"> Ed Greshko wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:48D83B10.5060104@greshko.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">bob smith wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">trying to update F9, on a 386/686 box. Failing. Thanks in advance for any help quick description - can't run yum. Think I have the repositories files from (addresses don't resolve) yes, I probably hosed them up trying to fix them. Got not response to yum update. time out error or address did not resolve removed files from yum.repos.d put a set of repos in yum.conf = seem to be wrong. this is what I get yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Could not retrieve mirrorlist <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=i386">http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=i386</a> error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/source/SRPMS/repodata/repomd.xml:">http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/source/SRPMS/repodata/repomd.xml:</a> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')> Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora9-source. Please verify its path and try again </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Seems like your system can't resolve the host names into an IP address. Network/DNS problems.... What does host mirrors.fedoraproject.org return? </pre> </blockquote> Thanks but DNS works - ping <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a> PING <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.l.google.com">www.l.google.com</a> (64.233.161.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=6.58 ms 64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=8.78 ms 64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=6.32 ms 64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=251 time=8.34 ms 64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=251 time=7.42 ms ^C64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=251 time=7.57 ms 64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=7 ttl=251 time=5.28 ms --- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.l.google.com">www.l.google.com</a> ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 5997ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.288/7.189/8.788/1.124 ms ping mirrors.fedoraproject.org PING wildcard.fedoraproject.org (209.132.176.120) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=102 ms 64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=105 ms 64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=107 ms --- wildcard.fedoraproject.org ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 102.060/105.049/107.155/2.187 ms <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- =============================================== Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now. CSN -Suite for.. </pre> </body> </html>