Strange things in Yum
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Feb 12 18:00:06 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 15:28 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> Jeff Vian ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on 12/02/2006 15:19:
> > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 06:57 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> >
> >> Friday, on one my computer in the office network, I installed
> >>
> >> rpmforge repo, and if :
> >>
> >> yum update all
> >>
> >> I get
> >>
> >> Setting up Update Process
> >> Setting up repositories
> >> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge
> >> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmforge
> >>
> >>
> >> I disinstalled rpmforge but I got similar message for updates-released.
> >>
> >> What happened and how to recover from this point (same with rpmforge
> >> installed or not)?
> >>
> >>
> > Is it possible the machine with the problem is not getting DNS
> > correctly?
> >
> No, Jeff: I could surf the net at same time so I assume that DNS were
> correct. This machine is also the router of the office network that was
> working great.
>
This is strange. Maybe something got corrupted in the repo files.
Check the contents of /etc/yum.repo.d files and confirm they are the
same as on the machine that does work.
Also, since this is the router, I would assume that you have iptables
and possibly selinux running. Maybe that has something to do with it.
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