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I broke yum -- Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

I was trying to follow a tutorial for installing yaffas (zarafa-admin) and I went to install the packages and got failed checksum errors for EVERY mirror. So after about 15 mirrors, I just hit CTRL+C to stop yum.

Now when I run yum anything, I get the following error:

Code:

# yum update

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

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/x86_64/$releasever/base/mirrorlist.txt

Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

Can someone please help me fix this?

I was able to fix my problem after hours and hours of searching. I found a post somewhere that indicated that the $releasever variable was not expanding quickly and they hardcoded their distroverpkg in the /etc/yum.conf file.

I looked at this file and it was set to: centos-releasea

It should have been: centos-release

I fixed the typo and all started working again!