"No more mirrors are available" popup box

[Kam Leo]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Gregory Hosler <ghosler at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 03/22/2010 12:13 AM, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
>> Am 18.03.2010 14:10, schrieb Gregory Hosler:
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>> Hi!
>>
>>> I have a local repository configured in my yum repos, so this applet/deamon/cron
>>> job is not finding any mirrors (which it shouldn't even be looking for, in this
>>> case).
>>>
>>> The window icon is the same as the [System] -> [Administration] -> [Add/Remove
>>> Software] icon.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions as to how to turn this off?
>>
>> First try to run "yum update" on the comman line - the messages it shows
>> might help to find the reason for the behaviour.
>
> yum doesn't have a problem. yum quietly looks at my properly configured yum
> repo, and sees that there is nothing to update. Since the repo is a local repo,
> it doesn't make any attempt to look up a mirror, and certainly doesn't tell me
> that it cannot connect to any mirror.
>
>> Anoter idea: run "yum clean all" to clean packages stored in local cache
>> as well as downloaded metadata. On the next start yum will download them
>> again. This helped me sometimes when yum behaved strage.
>
> As mentioned above, I'm not dealing w/ a remote mirror. I have a local repo and
> yum is complaining on *that* repo that there are no more mirrors (which is
> silly, of course).

You did not mention where your local repo is installed. Is it on the
same hard drive as the OS? If not, then your local repo is not on
line/accessible at the time the yum daemon runs.


> Thanks for the suggestion! Still looking for more suggestions!
>
> All the best,
>
> - -Greg