[Fedora] Re: Yum complains About baseurl

[Dave Gavin]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:14:21 +1000
david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 8/1/06, david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >> david walcroft wrote:
> >> > polka wrote:
> >> >> When I run yum I receive the following error. Has there been a 
> >> change in
> >> >> the URL addresses?
> >> >> [root at localhost yum.repos.d]# yum install nedit
> >> >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> >> >> Setting up Install Process
> >> >> Setting up repositories
> >> >> core
> >> >> [1/3]
> >> >> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> >> >> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> > Please post your 'core' repo including  yum.conf and the repo headings
> >> > in yum.repos.d
> >> >
> >> > david
> >> >
> >> Sorry I need the 'ls /etc/yum.repos.d' output'
> > 
> > this error occurs when you have no internet access.  yum doesn't
> > provide a very useful error, unfortunately.
> > 
> > 
> I usually assume that being able to send an email indicates an internet 
> connection for the box in question. :-)
> 
>    david


 I had the same problem earlier today - for some reason fedora.redhat.com
couldn't be resolved from the DNS servers. This caused the fetch of the mirror
list in the fedora-core.repo to fail and that's the message you get. It now
seems to have been corrected.

Dave Gavin

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