Upgraded to FC2 last night, now yum fails

Clint Harshaw clint at penguinsolutions.org
Mon Jul 26 15:17:27 UTC 2004


Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I finally found that libxml2 dirtyness no one could explain, but now a 
> "yum update"
> returns this:
> 
> [root at coyote xsane-0.90]# yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 2 stable
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
> And my networking is working fine.
> 
> Do I need a new /etc/yum.conf?
> 

The URL's listed above aren't correct, which would indicate some mods to 
your /etc/yum.conf are in order. Try pasting each of them into a browser 
and you'll see.

Have you tried starting with the sample available at fedorafaq.org and 
making modifications to it?

Hope this helps,
Clint





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