Yum Failure with mirrors unavailable

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 15:32 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > I have an FC8 unit that for some reason has stopped allowing yum
> > updates.  
> >
> > unname -a results in :
> >
> > Linux XXXX.Domain.com 2.6.25.10-47.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 18:31:41 EDT
> > 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > When I tried to do so manually with the command :
> >
> > yum update
> >
> > I receive the follow error message:
> >
> > Determining fastest mirrors
> > Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64
> > error was
> > [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
> >
> > Has this happened to anyone else?
> >
> > Greg Ennis
> >
> >   
> 
> Yes, I believe it is the result of system problems. 
> 
> Bob
> 
Thanks Bob.... see the other posts now....