On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:41 -0700, Wright, Paul wrote:
Greetings!
I am running a Centos-4 box and since January 17, I have been unable to update.
If I run 'yum update' from the command line, I get error messages about being unable to locate a mirror while trying to obtain primary.xml.gz.
If I run up2date from the GUI, it times out as it is trying to access the update file for firefox.
Other than the problem with updates, this box doesn't seem to have any trouble accessing Web sites and there is not a proxy server in use on our network. Another box on my network that is running Centos-3 does not appear to be having the same problem.
I would appreciate any hints on where to start troubleshooting this problem.
A safe starting point is "yum clean all", but sounds more like your mirror list is pointing to a server that is not available, has dropped CentOS, or changed the path. Check all the servers in your config files. I like to use a local mirrorlist and/or hand-configure nearby and fast mirrors with baseurl=... in the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files. If you want more detailed help you need to supply more info on your configuration.
Phil