A new problem with preupgrade - CORRECTION

[Aaron Konstam]

AFTER SENDING THE MESSAGE BELOW i SAW THAT THE ERROR MESSAGE LIST IS
SLIGHTLY IN ERROR. I HAVE REPLACED IT WITH THE CORRECTED ERROR LIST.
SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION

After installing updates In a fresh f10 system I no longer can run
preupgrade. I first get the output on the screen below:

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# preupgrade 
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:181: UserWarning: Use .preconf instead of
passing args to _getConfig
  warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig')
Loaded plugins: blacklist, refresh-packagekit, whiteout
Repository 'updates' is missing name in configuration, using id


Then over the beginning update screen I get an error window that says:
Failed to get release information

This could be caused by a missing
network connection or a bad mirror.

Are the mirrors broken? I do have a network connection. What might be
wrong and how do I fix it?
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[stan]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:31:25 +0100
Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt; wrote:

>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  
>  > # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rpm yum
>  > 
>  > Then try
>  
>  I'm afraid this doesn't do anything for me:
>  ---------------------------------
>  [tim@alice yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update
>  rpm yum
>  Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>  updates-testing                                          | 2.8 kB
>  00:00 updates-testing/primary_db                               | 6.6
>  MB     00:12 Setting up Update Process
>  No Packages marked for Update
>  ---------------------------------
>  
>  I'm still getting the preupgrade error:
>  ---------------------------------
>  Failed to fetch release info.
>  
>  This could be caused by a missing network connection or a bad mirror.
>  ---------------------------------
>  
>   
You could install the fastestmirror plugin for yum, and see if it uses
a different mirror, thus bypassing the bad one if that is what it is.
There is also a plugin called upgrade-helper, I'm not sure what it
does, but it sounds like it is relevant.

Check your network connections with ifconfig.

I think somewhere on the fedora website there is a link to the release
info.  You could download it directly, and put it someplace where
preupgrade would expect to find it.  Or run it yourself (I think it
just installs the new keys and repositories) before starting
preupgrade.  This commits you of course, unless you have the previous
release info and downgrade.

Just some off the wall suggestions, I haven't run preupgrade since F7
to F9, though I might be upgrading that F9 to F10 shortly using
preupgrade.

[Timothy Murphy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>  # yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rpm yum
>  
>  Then try 
I'm afraid this doesn't do anything for me:
---------------------------------
[tim@alice yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rpm 
yum
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
updates-testing                                          | 2.8 kB     00:00
updates-testing/primary_db                               | 6.6 MB     00:12
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
---------------------------------

I'm still getting the preupgrade error:
---------------------------------
Failed to fetch release info.

This could be caused by a missing network connection or a bad mirror.
---------------------------------


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin 2

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/27/2009 10:41 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>  AFTER SENDING THE MESSAGE BELOW i SAW THAT THE ERROR MESSAGE LIST IS
>  SLIGHTLY IN ERROR. I HAVE REPLACED IT WITH THE CORRECTED ERROR LIST.
>  SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION
>  
>  After installing updates In a fresh f10 system I no longer can run
>  preupgrade. I first get the output on the screen below:
>  
>  [root@localhost yum.repos.d]# preupgrade 
>  /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py:181: UserWarning: Use .preconf instead
> of passing args to _getConfig
>    warnings.warn('Use .preconf instead of passing args to _getConfig')
>  Loaded plugins: blacklist, refresh-packagekit, whiteout
>  Repository 'updates' is missing name in configuration, using id 
# yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rpm yum

Then try

Rahul

[Timothy Murphy]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

>  Then over the beginning update screen I get an error window that
> says:
>  Failed to get release information
>  
>  This could be caused by a missing
>  network connection or a bad mirror.
>  
>  Are the mirrors broken? I do have a network connection. What might be
>  wrong and how do I fix it?
>  -- 
I have the same problem, even after specifying a local repository.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: [phone]
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin 2