On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:04:09 +1000, David Timms wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:23:00 -0400, IBeartooth wrote: [...]
I'm getting persistent errors from yum update on a machine running FC5.ppc, saying it can't find a valid baseurl for repo: core.
Can you post the actual error trace ?
You mean this? :
[root@localhost btth]# yum update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories core [1/3] http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/ppc/os/repodata/re...: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. [root@localhost btth]#
I should perhaps have added that this is what I have as a core repo :
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo [core] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearc... mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
Can you point your web browser at the specified mirrorlist ?
The baseurl gets me a 404 from Dillo; so does the URL after it -- but ...
Mod the $releasever to 5! Do you get the mirrorlist OK ?
Then I did, yes.
Attempt to browse to one of the listed mirrors, replacing basearch and releasever. Can you get there
What do I put for basearch? Just ppc didn't work. Changing only $releasever to 5 doesn't solve it.
I get a list of http and ftp sites with both dillo and opera; they aren't clickable.
Does your web browser use proxies to get to external web sites ?
Yes, privoxy; and I did find a typo, 127.0.0..1 in the Galeon preferences; better check the others...