Strange things in Yum

[Antonio Montagnani]

Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 09:53:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:37 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>   
>> Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 09:08:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:58 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Paul Howarth wrote / ha scritto on /il 14/02/2006 08:33:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:19 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>>                 
>>> ...
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>> Trying typing "env" immediately before running yum (i.e. as root) and
>>>>> see if there are any environment settings with names including "proxy".
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul.
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> no proxy at env command!!!
>>>> And Synaptic is running o.k.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Does:
>>>
>>> wget
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
>>>
>>> (that's one line)
>>>
>>> create a repomd.xml file in your current directory on this machine?
>>>
>>> $ wget
>>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml--08:07:38--  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
>>>            => `repomd.xml'
>>> Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com... 66.187.224.20, 209.132.176.20,
>>> 209.132.176.220, ...
>>> Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com|66.187.224.20|:80... connected.
>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>>> Length: 1,140 (1.1K) [text/xml]
>>>
>>> 100%[===============================================================>]
>>> 1,140         --.--K/s
>>>
>>> 08:07:39 (8.93 KB/s) - `repomd.xml' saved [1140/1140]
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> and of course from another computer on same network, wget works.
>>     
>
> But what about on the one where you're having problems?
>
> Paul.
>
>   
You have missed my previous e-mail :-)
No, it doesn't work.This is the output......

[root at Contec antoniomontagnani]# wget 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedo 
ra/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
--09:13:47--  
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/ 
repodata/repomd.xml
          => `repomd.xml'
Risoluzione di download.fedora.redhat.com in corso... fallito: No such 
file or d irectory.


Output is in Italian, but fallito means failed!!!

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Antonio 
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