Re: yum repositories question



Ed Greshko wrote:
bob smith wrote:
trying to update F9, on a 386/686 box. Failing. Thanks in advance for
any help

quick description - can't run yum. Think I have the repositories files
from (addresses don't resolve)
yes, I probably hosed them up trying to fix them. Got not response to
yum update. time out error or address did not resolve

removed files from yum.repos.d
put a set of repos in yum.conf = seem to be wrong.
this is what I get

yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=i386
error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
resolution')>
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/source/SRPMS/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
resolution')>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
repository: fedora9-source. Please verify its path and try again

Seems like your system can't resolve the host names into an IP address. Network/DNS problems....

What does

host mirrors.fedoraproject.org

return?


Thanks but DNS works -
ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.161.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=6.58 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=8.78 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=6.32 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=251 time=8.34 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=251 time=7.42 ms
^C64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=251 time=7.57 ms
64 bytes from od-in-f99.google.com (64.233.161.99): icmp_seq=7 ttl=251 time=5.28 ms

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 5997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.288/7.189/8.788/1.124 ms

ping mirrors.fedoraproject.org
PING wildcard.fedoraproject.org (209.132.176.120) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=1 ttl=251 time=102 ms
64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=2 ttl=251 time=105 ms
64 bytes from admin.fedora.redhat.com (209.132.176.120): icmp_seq=3 ttl=251 time=107 ms

--- wildcard.fedoraproject.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 102.060/105.049/107.155/2.187 ms

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