FC 5 Update Not Available

trevor4706 · 10-26-2006, 07:05 AM

I've been trying to update my FC5 installation using the Applications/System Tools/Software Updater. I've never had any problems in the past, but over the past few days I've been receiving this message: "UNABLE TO RETRIEVE UPDATE INFORMATION. Unable to retrieve software information. This could be caused by not having a network connection available."

My network connections are working fine. Is the Red Hat network down?

Trevor4706

acid_kewpie · 10-26-2006, 07:16 AM

i don't personally use those nasty gui tools, pup and pirut aren't they? nasty things i think... all they'll really do is interface to yum, so i'd look lower down in the structure here and see whether you can so a "yum update". does that work? if so i'd look to something more local to the software. if the yum command fails then probably a network issue somewhere.

trevor4706 · 10-26-2006, 07:59 AM

Thanks for the suggestion. I gave Yum a go, and it reported it was unable to locate a valid baseurl. I loaded the url for core apps I found in the yum.repos.d file into Firefox and got into Red Hat OK, but there was a message on the site that indicated there was a problem that they were working to resolve. I guess the network problems are at red Hat.

acid_kewpie · 10-26-2006, 08:13 AM

oh yeah the release of fc6 took out fedora.redhat.com, check the mirrors at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mirrors and you can change the baseurl to get an alternative location. also you can stop using the baseurl entry and use the mirrorlist entry to automatically find a better mirror to use. in fact though i assume this is the default but the master mirror list is still held on fedora.redhat.com anyway, so that's also useless unless you change that!