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Hi there. I've been reading through this, and various other forums to try and solve one of many problems I've been having with FC6. I'm a new Linux user, but I've gotten a hang of the file system trying to get things working over the span of two installations. Anyhow, here's my question.
Ever since I first installed FC6, I could not get YUM to work correctly. After reading through various forums, including this one, I've deleted the # signs from the repo files, installed Livna and FreshRPM RPM files, and still no contact. Also, I set up GAIM, and that is even having problems connecting. I'm using Firefox 1.5 to write this post, but I turned off the IPv6 on that, so it's working--save the random crashes after installing Flash Player and Java (and still get crashes after deleting the Flash files in my home folder.)
I've checked the settings in etc/sysconfig/network/, modprobe.conf, and still can't get them to work; YUM still times out, and GAIM still doesn't connect. Are there any other possible places I'm missing? I don't really want to reinstall FC6 again.
Just a thought... I dont use livna but I think i remember reading somewhere that using livna AND freshrpms (*dries, etc*) on the same system time will cause compatablilty problems....
google livna freshrpms to get an idea of the history there...
Anyway on to disabling ipv6 (*note: posted elsewhere i forgot to save from where-- i saved it in my own personal web for reference and post it here verbatim *)
In the firefox address bar bype about: config
and filter for ipv
and set network.dns.disableIPv6
to true
Next
open a terminal and log in as root using
su -
yourpassword
then type
gedit /etc/modprobe.conf
and add the following lines
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
leave a blank line at the end save, and exit
then type
gedit /etc/sysconfig/network
and check and see if
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
if it does change it to
NETWORKING_IPV6=no
save and exit
reboot or restart networking and see what happens....
I'm able to connect to the repositories via Opera just fine, and download the RPMs I need, and yum is still giving me connection issues. Strangely, I installed Skype without a hitch, and am up and running with that.
Any other possible ideas?
Current config:
FC6.2798.i686xen
Firewall/SELinux off
Router firewall off
/etc/sysconfig/network IPv6 = no
Connection IPv6 = no/off
Hardware IPv6 = no/off
net-pf-10 off (What does this do any how? It slows down my computer greatly.)
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/6/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (97, 'Address family not supported by protocol')>
Trying other mirror.
livna 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc6&arch=i386 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (101, 'Network is unreachable')>
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