yum update gone bad today?

[sean]

Wow! Who woulda guesssed?  You're 2006's fedora man of the 
year ( so far).

Thanks.

sean


Trever L. Adams wrote:
> I had this happen on one machine. Make sure you remove all nisplus
> entries from any line that is not commented (#) in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> Note, you do not remove the entire line, you just remove nisplus.
> 
> I had one computer that had this problem and this is what fixed it. IT
> was also very interesting. None of the other machines have nisplus
> entries. I do not know why one would get it (that was only occassionally
> updated) while another didn't and none of the ones that get updated
> nearly every day had the problem.
> 
> Trever Adams
> 
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:10 -0500, sean wrote:
> 
>>yum has worked for months. It worked yesterday. Now:
>>
>>  yum update
>>Repository development is listed more than once in the 
>>configuration
>>Setting up Update Process
>>Setting up repositories
>>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: 
>>[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (2, 'No such file or 
>>directory')>
>>Trying other mirror.
>>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: development
>>failure: repodata/repomd.xml from development: [Errno 256] 
>>No more mirrors to try.
>>Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from development: [Errno 
>>256] No more mirrors to try.
>>
>>
>>Tried yum-2.5.0-5 and yum-2.4.1-3. Same result.
>>
>>  cat yum.conf
>>[main]
>>cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>>debuglevel=2
>>logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>>pkgpolicy=newest
>>distroverpkg=fedora-release
>>tolerant=1
>>exactarch=0
>>retries=20
>>
>>[development]
>>name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
>>baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64
>>mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
>>enabled=1
>>
>>
>>I can pull up 
>>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml 
>>in firefox.
>>
>>And it doesn't seem to try the mirrors.
>>
>>Something changed about yum configuration I've missed?
>>
>>Any  one else seing this?
>>
>>sean
>>
> 
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