I tried yumex 1.2.2 with the same results. Nice try by the way, at least it tries other repositories automatically (also fails). I usally use kyum rather than yum itself.
Thanks anyway Khamis. Any other suggestions ? On Feb 27, 6:11 pm, "Khamis Siksek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest you try yumex, its a GUI tool for Yum and it handles such issues, > I had the same problem with yuck (I mean yum), but after I used Yumex the > problem disappeared (seems that Yumex handles that kind of problems > internally). > > Anyways, you won't lose anything, try it and update us. > > On 2/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello LUGers, It seems that I only post here about problems. > > > I had this yum problem for a while on FC5. A few weeks ago I upgraded > > to FC6 and the problem persists. An error occurs whenever I use yum > > like this: > > > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > >http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-6 > > error was > > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> > > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core > > > I did some search and I tried some of the suggested solutions to such > > a problem including "yum clean all, yum clean headers..." > > > The problem seems to be in the main repository "core". Some suggested > > that my Geographical location may contribute to the problem so I had > > to explicitly specify using the base repository, but it doesn't make > > any sense since I was able to use yum from before. I did it anyway, > > with no change. > > > here is the main part of my core config file: > > [core] > > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch > > #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 > > file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY > > > I tried with both commented/uncommented baseurl & mirrorlist. I tried > > to clean the database, headers, cache... I tried to remove the yum, > > yum-metada-parser and yum-updatesd packages and installed them again, > > I tried to install other versions of the packages, I even tried to > > rebuild the rpm database but still have the same problem :( > > > I have a feeling there is something trivial here. Any help is > > appreciated. > > > Mohammad K. > > -- > > Khamis Siksekhttp://saksoook.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
