Strange things in Yum

[Antonio Montagnani]

Paul Howarth ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 13/02/2006 
17:10:
> Antonio Montagnani wrote:
>> Antonio Montagnani wrote / ha scritto on /il 13/02/2006 09:49:
>>
>>> Thomas Springer ha scritto / wrote  il / on 12/02/2006 22:11:
>>>
>>>> Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:22 +0100 schrieb Antonio Montagnani:
>>>>   
>>>>> Tomorrow morning I will check the contents of /etc/yum.repo.d 
>>>>> files and if corrupted I will copy from the working machine to the 
>>>>> router (it should be no problem): any other configuration file to 
>>>>> check?
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe an increased errlevel will reveal sth of interest:
>>>> $ yum -d 9 -e 9 update
>>>> See yum manpage.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thomas
>>>>   
>>>
>>> yum -d 10 -e 10 update
>>> Yum Version: 2.4.1
>>> COMMAND: yum -d 10 -e 10
>>> Installroot: /
>>> Setting up Update Process
>>> Setting up repositories
>>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>>>
>>> I checked also yum configuration files and they seem o.k.
>>> What about $basearch or $releasever broken?? how do I see their value??
>>>
>> I moved all *.repo files from working machine to my broken machine 
>> and also yum.conf .
>> Results didn't change.
>>
>> I made another test using only this base repo file :
>>
>> [base]
>> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
>> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ 
>>
>> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever 
>>
>> enabled=1
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
>>
>> and I got this result:
>>
>> yum -d 9 -e 9 update
>> Yum Version: 2.4.1
>> COMMAND: yum -d 9 -e 9
>> Installroot: /
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> Baseurl(s) for repo: 
>> ['http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4 /i386/os/']
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repom 
>> d.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.
>>
>>
>> Any hint?
>
> Perhaps the broken machine has a proxy configured in the environment 
> or in /etc/yum.conf, and that proxy is broken?
>
> Paul.
>
This is my yum.conf file.I am surprised because the machine was running 
fine until thursday night.How can I check if a proxy has been configured 
in the enviroment?
Please note that I am writing from my Home router that is a sister 
machine of office's network...Yum and Yumex are running o.k.

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
metadata_expire=1800

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

-- 
Antonio

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