Strange things in Yum

[Paul Howarth]

Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> Antonio Montagnani wrote / ha scritto on /il 13/02/2006 09:49:
> 
>> Thomas Springer ha scritto / wrote  il / on 12/02/2006 22:11:
>>
>>> Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:22 +0100 schrieb Antonio Montagnani:
>>>    
>>>
>>>> Tomorrow morning I will check the contents of /etc/yum.repo.d files 
>>>> and if corrupted I will copy from the working machine to the router 
>>>> (it should be no problem): any other configuration file to check?
>>>>     
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe an increased errlevel will reveal sth of interest:
>>> $ yum -d 9 -e 9 update
>>> See yum manpage.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>   
>>
>> yum -d 10 -e 10 update
>> Yum Version: 2.4.1
>> COMMAND: yum -d 10 -e 10
>> Installroot: /
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>>
>> I checked also yum configuration files and they seem o.k.
>> What about $basearch or $releasever broken?? how do I see their value??
>>
> I moved all *.repo files from working machine to my broken machine and 
> also yum.conf .
> Results didn't change.
> 
> I made another test using only this base repo file :
> 
> [base]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ 
> 
> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever 
> 
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> 
> and I got this result:
> 
> yum -d 9 -e 9 update
> Yum Version: 2.4.1
> COMMAND: yum -d 9 -e 9
> Installroot: /
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Baseurl(s) for repo: 
> ['http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4 /i386/os/']
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repom 
> d.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (2, 'No such file or directory')>
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more 
> mirrors to try.
> 
> 
> Any hint?

Perhaps the broken machine has a proxy configured in the environment or 
in /etc/yum.conf, and that proxy is broken?

Paul.