Info: if your yum fails ... server maintenance

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Jun 29 03:42:01 UTC 2005


Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>FYI
>
>If you see "yum update" failing with a message
>
>Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>
>this is because of a server maintenance on Red Hat's side. The mirror
>selection page is actually affected and out of order.
>
>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc4
>( same for FC3)
>
>The page now shows:
>
>Site Maintenance
>In order to provide you with a better experience on redhat.com we are
>currently doing site maintenance and upgrading our systems. We apologize
>for any inconvenience this may cause. Please come back in a few hours
>for full access to our improved site.
>
>To contact Red Hat Support please call 1-888-RedHat1.
>
>
>So don't be alarmed and think your yum is broken by doing nothing ;)
>
>Alexander
>
>
>  
>
Thanks Alexander,

I fiddled around with the repo lists for quite some time before reading 
your message. I evenually went to a direct URL instead of the mirror 
approach.

Jim

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