Stripes on screen after installing Fedora

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:01:45 +0200, Bjørn Ivar Johnsen wrote:

> Now I have tried i believe everything mentioned here regarding  
> updating or downloading or putting in link to repository, and I get  
> the same error ewrytime "Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f9&arch=x86_64 
>   error was [Errno 4] [0Error: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure  
> in name resolution')>

Can you access any part of the Internet at all?

Above is a fully valid location that works fine here.

Can you load the page in your favourite web browser? (I assume 
it will fail in the same way for you, because your DNS access is
not working.) What do you get for "cat /etc/resolv.conf"?