[SOLVED] RPMFUSION not opening in fedora 13 (browser/console)

rishabhd · 08-31-2010, 04:11 AM

Hi
I am new to linux and I went on with Fedora 13 non PAE (installed using fedora live2usb creator using fedora 13 live iso), its been a blast but I have been encountering a strange problem regarding rpmfusion. I tried to open rpmfusion.org but its not opening (in any browser) and I m not able to ping it (even as superuser). However, when I try to open it in my mobile, in another OS like open solaris/mac/windows it perfectly opens. Its like its been avoiding this Fedora 13 platform only (or only my PC specifically) . I am not able to install packages & update them. I m sitting behind an ADSL router (which my ISP provided me, runs in PPPOE mode, autoconnected and & always on connection) & for once I thought it might be a case of poisoning DNS for a specific entry like rpmfusion, but I am not able to find anything related to it.

I tried the Livna repo and tried to install software from there but it doesnt contains much and was giving an error as well.

Quote:

Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - ""
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: livna. Please verify its path and try again

when I try to use yum to install any package for eg VLC

Quote:

yum install vlc

I get

Quote:

Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink | 12 kB 00:01
fedora | 4.3 kB 00:00
fedora/primary_db | 773 kB

it goes on and I am not able to install anysoftware.

i tried

Quote:

yum clean metadata

&

Quote:

yum clean all

but was unable to resolve it. I m new to the platform and was unable to find a precise solution regarding it. Any help will be appreciated.

SkyEye · 08-31-2010, 09:32 PM

I'm using F13 32-bit with a PAE kernel and I'm having no problems with RPMFusion.

One thing I noticed in your post is that it's trying to fetch a mirror list from http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist. Is there a specific reason you are using the Livna repo these days? If you aren't using the one package hosted in Livna you can safely remove it or disable it (set 'enabled=1' in the Livna config file).

Or else you might have carried old repo configuration files. Check your repos:
$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo

Your RPMFusion repos should have something like "http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch" (without quotes) as the baseurl.

John VV · 08-31-2010, 10:15 PM

rishabhd i would read mjm's help/guid page for fedora , it is one of the better pages and very simple to fallow
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f13.html

rishabhd · 09-08-2010, 04:47 AM

Thank you guys for your insightful replies.
I found the real culprit, DNS was poisoned, updated it & voila, i was good to go..now enjoying everybit of freedom with fedora

cheers

-
Rishabh
www.theprohack.com

raghu_mag · 01-07-2011, 07:28 AM

hey rishab,I am from India, i have simillar problem the dns directs the url to iitk website,which seems down....can you tell me how you solved the problem
Regards
Raghu

knudfl · 01-07-2011, 09:47 AM

Post #5, @ raghu_mag : Welcome to LQ.

One possible solution is to use a fixed URL instead of the mirror list:
The original 'rpmfusion-free.repo' can look like :

Code:

[rpmfusion-free]
name=RPM Fusion for Fedora $releasever - Free
#baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-$releasever-$basearch

Suggested edits for these lines (Example Fedora 14, i386)

Code:

baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/14/Everything/i386/os/
# mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch

1) A fixed address. 2) Uncomment "mirrorlist.." with a hash mark ( # ).
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