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Can you reach http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...ata/repomd.xml with curl, wget, telnet, links or any other browser installed? If not, is your network connection working properly (as in other sites being reachable) or does it work if you stop the iptables service (as in excessively restrictive rules)?
Open a terminal window then type "links http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/i386/repodata/repomd.xml" or "firefox http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/i386/repodata/repomd.xml" or "curl -sS http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/12/i386/repodata/repomd.xml". If there is any error output don't reply "it ain't working" but please post the exact text.
For what it is worth you should not need to be "root" when executing 'links'...
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Originally Posted by srinivasmiriyalu
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etc]#
...and you need not be in /etc/ at time of execution either. That said...
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Originally Posted by srinivasmiriyalu
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Command not found. The transaction failed: no-cache, failed to search sack: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from adobe-linux-i386: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
(pk-command-not-found:3162): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strv_length: assertion `str_array != NULL' failed
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