yum update is giving error

namit · 10-23-2005, 10:46 AM

I am running fedora 4.0 and for so reason when i run

yum update i get this back

Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released

Anyone else having this problem

namit · 10-23-2005, 11:14 AM

What is think is the company called FortiGuard they block out any non rated website from my internet connection. And i think yum downloads off a website an xml files. Am i right in saying this? if so what is that xml file it downloads

reddazz · 10-23-2005, 11:40 AM

Can you post all the output you are getting.

namit · 10-23-2005, 12:05 PM

Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released

reddazz · 10-23-2005, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by namit
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released

I meant all the output you get after running "yum update".

namit · 10-23-2005, 01:28 PM

that is what i am getting

duffmckagan · 10-23-2005, 01:53 PM

Take a look here.
Seems like you haven't setup your Yum repos properly.

namit · 10-23-2005, 03:28 PM

but it did work till i started to use this other company so guess they the problem

reddazz · 10-23-2005, 03:37 PM

It could be a problem with your ISP, so contact them and have a word with them.

namit · 10-24-2005, 07:01 AM

well just wondering what the crack is with the xml files yum downloads maby if i can get the log files of yum it might have what it is trying to download in the file.

Just have to tell them what the file is i can not download but am not getting it up on the screen.

bkorb · 10-24-2006, 01:12 PM

I get the same thing: it was once working, magic
happened and now it does not. I've spent 30 minutes
trying to run down the cause and fix. I guess I see
the cause now, but the fix is not apparent here.
I keep digging......

BigFunkyChief · 10-24-2006, 01:17 PM

Here's the fix that worked for me...had to change the location that it wanted to look in...the default repos in a Fedora Core 4 install did not work.

Add http: to the url below:

aaltonen.us/archive/2004/11/13/yum-in-fedora-core-3

mdlockwood · 10-24-2006, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bkorb

I get the same thing: it was once working, magic
happened and now it does not. I've spent 30 minutes
trying to run down the cause and fix. I guess I see
the cause now, but the fix is not apparent here.
I keep digging......

It looks like Fedora core 6 was just released and fedora.redhat.com is having trouble with bandwidth: "We are working hard to bring fedora.redhat.com back up to its fully operational state".

bkorb · 07-20-2007, 10:44 AM

Well, I had it fixed, but it has become unfixed so I am back trying to re-learn whatever it was I found out before to get it working again. Very, very, very tiresome.

# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released [1/9]
flash [2/9]
extras [3/9]
core [4/9]
jpackage-fedora [5/9]
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: jpackage-fedora
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: jpackage-fedora

bkorb · 07-20-2007, 11:02 AM

The answer is: repositories bounce up and down and become unavailable for various reasons. Rather than just allow you to skip unavailable repositories, yum dies this way leaving you to think that no repositories were found. Not so at all. Since there is no option for skipping repositories, you just have to know that you have to edit the yum configuration data to skip the unavailable stuff. -- DON'T FORGET TO PUT IT ALL BACK THOUGH!! (Unless it is gone for good. I don't (yet?) know how to find that out.)