If you run this, what do you get?
$ wget -S -O - 'http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386'
Thanks, Matt
-- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO
From: mirror-admin-bounces@fedoraproject.org [mailto:mirror-admin-bounces@fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of niji ogunbameru Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 8:53 AM To: mirror-admin@fedoraproject.org Subject: Fwd: Yum Update error. Is the mirror down?
Dear Sir / Madam Each tile I try to run yum update, The following error is been generated. yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=i386 error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: epel
Is this a sign of possible issue with the mirror site. Regards Niji
Copy of my /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPELfile:///\\etc\pki\rpm-gpg\RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
[epel-debuginfo] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Debug #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch/debug mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-debug-5&arch=$base... failovermethod=priority enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPELfile:///\\etc\pki\rpm-gpg\RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL gpgcheck=1
[epel-source] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch - Source #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/SRPMS mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-source-5&arch=$bas... failovermethod=priority enabled=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPELfile:///\\etc\pki\rpm-gpg\RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
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