Yum stopped working after F14 -> F15 upgrade

[Sam Varshavchik]

Manish Kathuria writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have upgraded from F14 to F15 using preupgrade and everything seems
> to be okay except yum. Whenever I run yum, it terminates giving the
> error:
>
> Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: updates. Please verify
> its path and try again
>
> The error message appeared for other repositories also. In order to
> sort out the problem I have tried out the following:
>
> 1. Disabled livna, rpmfusion and other repositories.
> 2. Disabled ipv6
> 3. Created entries in /etc/hosts for mirror.fedoraproject.org
> 4. Reinstalled yum, fedora-release-15-1
>
> However, none of this has solved the problem. DNS is working fine and
> all other internet applications are able to resolve sites. Any
> suggestions?

Don't recall offhand where yum looks for its http proxy configuration. If  
you have network connectivity, the only thing I can think of would be broken  
http proxy config. Look into that.


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