check following #cd /etc/yum.repos.d check whether base.repo is available and then remove that file
You can freshly install latest epel from location accorindg to your version http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel
Then you can try yum -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 19/2/14, Always Learning centos@u62.u22.net wrote:
Subject: Re: [CentOS] new Centos 6.5 32 bit yum issue To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, 19 February, 2014, 4:37 AM
On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 20:32 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
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
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.
I got exactly the same problem due to a firewall (IP Tables) stopping traffic. Ensure port 80 is open.
-- Paul. England, EU.
Our systems are exclusively Centos. No Micro$oft Windoze here.
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