[CentOS] new Centos 6.5 32 bit yum issue

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Earl A Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com>:

> On 19 February 2014 03:01, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
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>> When I fire up the virtualbox VM Centos starts as I would expect, but
>> when I try to use yum list updates (or any of several other yum
>> command I've tried) I get a repo error - "
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
>> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was
>> 14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'mirrorlist.centos.org'"
>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
>>
>> I looked in the repo.d and the base CentOS-Base.repo suggests that if
>> the mirrorlist= does not work I should try the commented out baseurl=
>> instead. But I don't seem to have nano and can't install it - yum
>> install fails as above.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Dave
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>> Does the VirtualBox VM have access to the internet, are there any proxy
> setting on the host?

seems so - I have a terminal and can ping out and ftp, the host  
computer is a home ubuntu box on a wifi network, I'm typing right now  
on another computer on the same network, I'm not aware of any  
connectivity issues, I haven't set up any proxy.

Dave

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