yum: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file

[Timothy Murphy]

antonio montagnani wrote:

> 2006/4/3, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>:
>> Why, oh why am I getting this mysterious message from yum
>> on one FC-4 machine?
>> ----------------------------------
>> [root at alfred tim]# yum update
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up repositories
>>
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/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: base
>> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to
>> try. Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more
>> mirrors to try.
>> ----------------------------------

> Check other messages sent short ago about nsswith.conf file that is
> broken...

Thank you.
That was indeed the cause.
I copied nsswitch.conf from an FC-5 machine to my FC-4 machine,
and all was well.

I had actually read (vaguely) about the problem with nsswitch.conf
and had looked at the file, which looked fine to me.
[I thought the file was going to be corrupt.]

I did look (quickly) at the fedora-list archives,
and didn't see the messages you mentioned -
however, your brief posting was enough to put me on the right lines.


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