Yum errors on rpmfusion in F10: Please help

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 05.12.2008 06:30, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
>> Recently did a fresh install of F10. All updates (a boatload of them!)
>> as of yesterday.  Disabled IPv6 (in modprobe.conf) Disabled ip6tables
>> (chkconfig) and rebooted.  The ipv6 module is not loaded.
>>
>> Nonetheless, like some others on the list I am getting this error from
>> yum after installing the rpmfusion repos:
>>
>> [root at neuron ~]# yum  update
>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>> Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-released-10&arch=i386 error was
>> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-nonfree-updates. Please verify its path and try again
>>
>> These repos were installed using the command suggested by Kevin Kempter:
>>
>> rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
>>
>> which installed just fine.
>>
>> In fact:
>>
>> [root at neuron ~]# rpm -qa | fgrep rpmfus
>> rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8-6.noarch
>> rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch
>>
>> I can get to the metadata file "repomd.xml" just fine by plugging the
>> URL from the rpmfusion repo into Firefox, but try as I might, yum
>> refuses to go there or work at all unless I disable the rpmfusion
>> repos.
>>
>> Can anyone help me (other some others) fix this?
>> Thanks
> 
> Try using the main rpmfusion server. Edit the rpmfusion repo files in
> /etc/yum.repos.d directory, enable the baserul (i.e. remove the "#"
> character), and disable the mirrorlist (i.e place a "#" at beginning
> of line).

See also:
http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ

Quoting:
> 
> === Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-foo. Please verify its path and try again ===
> 
> Yum cannot connect to the RPM Fusion servers if you get above message. That could be a problem with your local network or a problem with the !MirrorManager servers from RPM Fusion. If it's the latter use this comment to temporary work around the problem:
> {{{
> su -c "sed -i 's|^#baseurl|baseurl| ; s|^mirrorlist|#mirrorlist|' /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion*free*repo"
> }}}
> 
> To undo the change later use this command:
> {{{
> su -c "sed -i 's|^baseurl|#baseurl| ; s|^#mirrorlist|mirrorlist|' /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion*free*repo"
> }}}
> 

HTH

CU
knurd