Re: yum error..

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:42:47 -0400, Eric H. wrote this:

I've already gone through every website with every hint I can find and
nothing addresses my problem.

I'm using FC5.

My basic problem is that yum is unable to retrieve the repository data but
it's not because I'm using a proxy or anything else for that matter.
Apparently I somehow got ahold of a kernel that reports the $basearch
variable differently than is on the Fedora repo which of course means it's
looking for a path that is nonexistent and I can't figure out how I can
possibly get it back so I can finish updating.

Anyone have any ideas what I might need to do to get this going?

I was considering waiting till FC6 came out and then just upgrading the
whole system that way but I'm not sure if that will work at this point so
I'm looking for any hints whatsoever.

Go figure that this all started when I realized that my last update killed
my nvidia driver.

Why is basearch reporting the wrong arch? Was one of your repos
address copied incorrectly?

$ echo $basearch
$ uname
$ less /etc/yum.repos.d/*

You could try setting the basearch in /etc/yum.conf
basearch=$(uname -i)
.