hello experts,

On FC9, all of a sudden yum is not working. Following is the error

[root@localhost com_installer]# yum install php-xml
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mir...ra-9&arch=i386 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

I checked out the url (http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mir...ra-9&arch=i386) in the browser..it opens properly.

also ran yum update , yum clear all .. and also updated the fedora.repo file .. but still the problem persists.

yum.conf file
==========
[main]
proxy=http://192.168.0.254:3128
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
installonly_limit=2

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

'fedora.repo' file
=============
[fedora]
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
name=Fedora 9 - i386
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-9&arch=i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
name=Fedora 9 - i386 - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-9&arch=i386
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
name=Fedora 9 - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-9&arch=i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
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Are you behind an HTTP proxy?

Dave

Did you get this working ViKs? I'm having the same problem with 2 fresh Fedora 10 installs.

Same here with x86_64 and still a problem as of March 5, 2009.

Is our problem caused by the "DNS Resolver not reliable" bug in the "Common F10 bugs" list on the fedoraproject.org wiki?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Commo...r_not_Reliable

In my case turned out that the machine, which was a nameserver on a restricted subnet just for nameservers, was blocked at the firewall from getting a translation address for external commo. As soon as that was permitted, yum worked fine.
Oops, subject should be Could NOT retrieve....