yum stopped working (fc4 & fc5)

[John Miller]

Mika Penttilä wrote:

> I found yum stopped working after recently doing a biggish fc4
> upgrade, for instance glibc got updated (no repositories found ;
> Cannot find a valid baseurl). I upgraded then to fc5, with same
> results for yum. I suspect it might be nameresolver/glibc related
> issue...Any ideas?

An update to glibc-2.3.6-3 broke yum here.  Reverting to
glibc-2.3.5-10.3 fixed it.  Waiting to hear the ultimate fix. 

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