yum stopped working (fc4 & fc5)

Mon Apr 3 12:49:55 UTC 2006

2006/4/3, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
> Mika Penttilä wrote:
> > Mika Penttilä wrote:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> Mika
> >>
> > Btw must be something name resolver related, for instance wget doesn't
> > work without the explicit -4 flag...
>
> Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure it looks sane.
>
> Paul.
>
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See this thread:
FC4 -> FC5 upgrade problem: wget, yum etc. and ipv6
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