FYI
If you see "yum update" failing with a message
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
this is because of a server maintenance on Red Hat's side. The mirror selection page is actually affected and out of order.
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc4 ( same for FC3)
The page now shows:
Site Maintenance In order to provide you with a better experience on redhat.com we are currently doing site maintenance and upgrading our systems. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please come back in a few hours for full access to our improved site.
To contact Red Hat Support please call 1-888-RedHat1.
So don't be alarmed and think your yum is broken by doing nothing ;)
Alexander
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
FYI
If you see "yum update" failing with a message
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
this is because of a server maintenance on Red Hat's side. The mirror selection page is actually affected and out of order.
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc4 ( same for FC3)
The page now shows:
Site Maintenance In order to provide you with a better experience on redhat.com we are currently doing site maintenance and upgrading our systems. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please come back in a few hours for full access to our improved site.
To contact Red Hat Support please call 1-888-RedHat1.
So don't be alarmed and think your yum is broken by doing nothing ;)
Alexander
Thanks Alexander,
I fiddled around with the repo lists for quite some time before reading your message. I evenually went to a direct URL instead of the mirror approach.
Jim
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:42:01 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
[....]
selection page is actually affected and out of order.
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc4
[...]. Please come back in a few hours
[...]
Thanks Alexander,
I fiddled around with the repo lists for quite some time before reading your message. I evenually went to a direct URL instead of the mirror approach.
Would somebody please explain to the technically challenged how to do that?
My upgrades from FC2 and Fc3 went fine; I did FC1, hit exactly that error, and have been retrying ever since, for almost 24 hours.
Fwiw, I still have an /etc/yum.conf from FC1.
Up2date also fails.
Is the server really still out??
Or is something else wrong on my end?
Am Do, den 30.06.2005 schrieb beartooth um 2:10:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:42:01 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
[....]
selection page is actually affected and out of order.
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc4
[...]. Please come back in a few hours
[...]
Thanks Alexander,
I fiddled around with the repo lists for quite some time before reading your message. I evenually went to a direct URL instead of the mirror approach.
Would somebody please explain to the technically challenged how to do that?
Last night (~ 02:00 UTC) there was a maintenance with the Red Hat server which serves besides other things the mirror selection lists, used by yum and up2date to automatically choose a mirror for getting package information and the packages itself. That caused yum to fail temporarily.
My upgrades from FC2 and Fc3 went fine; I did FC1, hit exactly that error, and have been retrying ever since, for almost 24 hours.
Fwiw, I still have an /etc/yum.conf from FC1.
Up2date also fails.
Is the server really still out??
No, test it yourself by accessing the URL with your browser.
Or is something else wrong on my end?
Must be something with your setup.
Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist
Alexander
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:52:24 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: [....]
So don't be alarmed and think your yum is broken by doing nothing ;)
[....] I had reported than one of my newly upgraded FC4 machines was still failing yum update -- and been assured the trouble was on my end.
Quite true. One of my gurux found it, and a quick & easy fix for it.
Turns out the upgrade from FC1 is different than from FC2 or 3; somewhere along in there, big (and very good) changes were made in yum -- and maybe that's the reason.
Anyway, FC2 & 3 changed their configurations automagically when I upgraded to FC4; but FC4 kept the old yum.conf I had had on FC1, gave me a new file, named yum.conf.rpmnew, to replace that with -- and didn't tell me so, or if it did I missed it or failed to understand it.
I had spotted the fact that the old yum.conf was still FC1's, and moved it to a new yum.conf.fc1 to get rid of it; but I didn't know what to replace it with, much less that the replacement was already there and waiting, until my excellent guru spotted that. (No doubt it's obvious to many.)
So I simply went into /etc as root; did "mv yum.conf.rpmnew yum.conf"; ran yum update again; and now it worked.
Once I had a current FC4, even pine (which had been especially troublesome) went back to working like the charm it is.
Iirc, it was FC1 that first made the excellent shift over to yum; that was one of its attractions for me, because I'd been using yum under YellowDog.
Suggestion : if much FC1 is left out there, the developers might want to consider a routine for the installer that would detect an obsolete yum.conf (if it doesn't already), and give some plainer more conspicuous warning or advice or automagic fix or offer to fix (if it mentions it and I missed it).
Anyway, my trouble is gone. If nobody sees any reason against the quick & easy fix, I'll try to watch FC1 > FC4 threads here for a while, and mention it if somebody doesn't beat me to it.