YUM errors

linuxguy08 · 02-09-2010, 01:35 PM

Hi All,
when I tried to update with yum , it says the following error messages.
what could be the issus?

# yum list updates
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
Eg. $releasever is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/updates/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates

Can anyone pls suggest me?
Thanks

linuxguy08 · 02-09-2010, 02:06 PM

I am using Centos 5.3

ncsuapex · 02-09-2010, 02:12 PM

in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo what does it have for the [updates] section?

EDIT:

$releasever is spelled wrong.

try

$releaserver

linuxguy08 · 02-09-2010, 02:42 PM

I tried this

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaserver&arch=$basearch&repo=updates

this is what you said? still the same error

ncsuapex · 02-09-2010, 03:03 PM

not sure where your problem is but this is what my [updates] section looks like

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

linuxguy08 · 02-09-2010, 03:23 PM

this is mine yum updates

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

chrism01 · 02-09-2010, 06:42 PM

@ncsuapex : $releasever is correct, see your own post #5. Its short for 'release version'.

ncsuapex · 02-10-2010, 09:55 AM

Yeah I noticed that after I posted my updates section. From what I see his looks right. Unless he has a conflicting updates section in another repo file. Otherwise I'm not sure what his issue is.

chrism01 · 02-10-2010, 07:08 PM

iirc, I've heard that Centos only has updates for the latest version (currently 5.4), so the OP would just run

yum upgrade

(yum update might work) to get to 5.4
That's what I did.