On Nov 20, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Jim Perrin jperrin@centos.org wrote:
It should be looking at /6/ instead of a specific point release. We (CentOS) do not provide updates for individual point releases. You are several years behind in security and bug-fix updates. Once a specific minor version is expired, it is moved off the main mirrors and into the vault. The current iteration of the /6/ tree is 6.7, so everything below that is no longer available on the mirrors. Have you modified your repository files or are they stock?
I might suggest starting off with a 'yum clean all', then running your query again.
On 11/20/2015 11:21 AM, Wes James wrote:
I have inherited centos 6.3 and 6.2 vms in an esxi environment. When I do
yum provides ntpd
on the 6.3 box I get a lot of errors like:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
- base: mirror.unl.edu
- extras: mirrors.cmich.edu
- updates: mirror.steadfast.net
http://mirror.unl.edu/centos/6.4/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 -
This is what happened:
yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto Cleaning repos: base extras updates Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors 8 delta-package files removed, by presto
yum provides ntpd Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os error was 12: Timeout on http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os: (28, 'connect() timed out!') Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
What next?
Actually, I think I have a firewall issue. I googled the error and someone suggest trying:
curl 'http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os' http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os'
So I tried that on my 6.4 virtualbox and it worked. I tried it on the esxi vm and it timed out.
Thanks,
-wes