Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help
Jim
mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 6 16:00:33 UTC 2008
Dean S. Messing wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
>> On 05.12.2008 07:39, Dean S. Messing wrote:
>>
>>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05.12.2008 06:30, Kam Leo wrote:
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>> Try using the main rpmfusion server. Edit the rpmfusion repo files in
>>>>> /etc/yum.repos.d directory, enable the baserul (i.e. remove the "#"
>>>>> character), and disable the mirrorlist (i.e place a "#" at beginning
>>>>> of line).
>>>>>
>>>> See also:
>>>> http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ
>>>>
>>>>
> <snip>
>
>>> [...] I did that already (by hand) before I wrote
>>> to the list; didn't help.
>>>
>
> <snip>
>
>> [...] you should post the error message that you get now after doing that
>> change (which you afaics didn't do yet; but maybe I missed it) --
>> without that we can only guess around what might be wrong.
>>
>
> The error message was so similar (just the path name changed) that I
> didn't think it necessary. Again, for those who haven't read the full
> thread, ipv6 is entirely shut off on this system so its not that.
>
> Here is more complete data on my problem:
>
> Verifying I have the right rpmfusion packages:
>
> [root at neuron ~]# rpm -qa | fgrep rpmf
> rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8-6.noarch
> rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch
>
> Demonstration of problem when "mirrorlist" line is upcommented and
> "baseurl" line is commented in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo:
>
> [root at neuron ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-10&arch=i386 error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again
>
>
> If I now comment the "mirrorlist" line and uncomment the "baseurl" line
> in /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo I get:
>
> [root at neuron ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again
>
>
> I notice the "Trying other mirror." That seems strange as its now operating
> on the baseurl, not the mirrorlist. Here's the first lines of
> /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo:
>
> [rpmfusion-free]
> name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free
> baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
> #mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora
>
>
> Nota bene: I've disabled all the other rpmfusion repos ("enable=0")
> except rpmfusion-free so as to keep things simple.
>
> One more piece of data which I just discovered.
> If I do a "yum clean all" first I get:
>
> [root at neuron ~]# yum clean all
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Cleaning up Everything
> [root at neuron ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/10/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Trying other mirror.
> livna
> livna/pr
> http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Trying other mirror.
> fedora
> fedora/p
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again
> [root at neuron ~]#
>
> I notice similar [Errno 4] messages from the livna and fedora repos, but they somehow recover!
> Why not the rpmfusion repo?
>
> For completeness I now will uncomment "mirrorlist" and comment "baseurl" in
> /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo and run the same commands:
>
> [root at neuron ~]# yum clean all
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Cleaning up Everything
> [root at neuron ~]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/10/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Trying other mirror.
> livna
> livna/pr
> fedora
> fedora/p
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-10&arch=i386 error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again
>
> Hmm. This time livna failed, retried and succeeded, fedora had no
> problem at all, and rpmfusion failed and did not recover.
> I'm completely stumped.
>
> Dean
>
>
Did you you make a /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf file ??
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