Strange things in Yum

[Antonio Montagnani]

Jeff Vian ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 12/02/2006 19:00:
> 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.
>
>   
Synaptic is running fine so I assume that iptables is not the  
problem.Furthermore a similar router is working great

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Antonio

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