Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 26 00:13:58 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:56 +0000, Jack Byers wrote:
>
> Jack Byers byersj at hotmail.com
> root at bootp yum.repos.d]# uname -a
> Linux bootp 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 #1 Tue Aug 8 15:30:55 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
>
> hitting this error on yum commands that worked only a week or so ago
>
> root at bootp byers]# yum provides lsusb
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Searching Packages:
> Setting up repositories
> core [1/3]
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> [root at bootp byers]#
>
> similarly
> [root at bootp byers]# yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> core [1/3]
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
> [root at bootp byers]#
>
> upon googling I found a "suggestion" that
> uncommenting the "baseurl ...." line in the various
> repos.d files might help, but without explanation.
>
> my mystery is that the above commands used to work without any change to the
> respos.d files
>
>
> uncommenting the baseurl line in -core, -updates, -extras
> then allowed the "yum provides lsusb" to work as previously:
> All three were necessary.
>
>
> [root at bootp yum.repos.d]# yum provides lsusb
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Searching Packages:
> Setting up repositories
> core [1/3]
> updates [2/3]
> extras [3/3]
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Importing additional filelist information
>
> usbutils.i386 0.71-2 core
> Matched from:
> /sbin/lsusb
> /usr/share/man/man8/lsusb.8.gz
>
> usbutils.i386 0.71-2 installed
> Matched from:
> /sbin/lsusb
> /usr/share/man/man8/lsusb.8.gz
> [root at bootp yum.repos.d]#
>
>
> I have still not changed -development, -extras-development, updates-testing
> I would appreciate some feedback on this behavior,
> especiallly before I go much further and really mess up my system.
>
> --is it now required that these baseurl lines be uncommented?
>
> Jack
>
If you look ar the sites as of yeaterday they were all clogged up with
wat I assume is updating the databases for FC6. I expect they will work
presently. Maybe even by now.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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