Yum Update not working

gary garys at mtaonline.net
Sun Dec 3 07:13:37 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 22:30 -0800, Norm wrote:
> I had to reinstall  Core 6.  Everything has gone well until I tried to
> up date
> At the command line if I try yum  update I get the following error
> ftp://ftp.safe.ca/pub/clement-2.1/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4]
> IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: clement
>  From the gui if I use the "software updater" I receive this error in an
> "unable to retrieve information box "Cannot open/read repomd.xml file
> for repository: clement"
> I have yum updater enabled but it does not return any indication of
> updates after I reboot the system.
> When I go to the ftp site I notice that there seems to be a missing
> subdirectory in the address between clement-2.1 and repodata. the ftp
> site indicates there should be a "fc6" subdirectory.  The bottom is
> there must be another way to do updates, what is it?
> Norm
> 
> 

 Google - check this = http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=139609
         ----------gary




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