Hi,
I recently downloaded and burned the 5.4 DVD ISO. All my machines are now running 5.4, but these are installs I performed with 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 etc. and then progressively upgraded. Now I had to use 5.4 because a friend's laptop, a brandnew Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile, refuses to boot anything under 5.4.
After a fresh install of the base system, first thing I do is 'yum update' with the default setup... only this time, nothing happens. I stays about a minute or two on 'Determining fastest mirror'... and then tells me :
"Could not retrieve mirrorlist..."
On the other hand, 'yum update' on all the other installs (from older CentOS disks) works correctly.
What's wrong?
Niki
Could you please post the full output of the yum update? Also, are you using any additional yum repos outside of the default centos repo or any plugins?
Thanks Josh
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Hi,
I recently downloaded and burned the 5.4 DVD ISO. All my machines are now running 5.4, but these are installs I performed with 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 etc. and then progressively upgraded. Now I had to use 5.4 because a friend's laptop, a brandnew Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile, refuses to boot anything under 5.4.
After a fresh install of the base system, first thing I do is 'yum update' with the default setup... only this time, nothing happens. I stays about a minute or two on 'Determining fastest mirror'... and then tells me :
"Could not retrieve mirrorlist..."
On the other hand, 'yum update' on all the other installs (from older CentOS disks) works correctly.
What's wrong?
Niki _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
You might need to verify internet access. Are you connected via wireless or wired? Can you ping any IP?
CentOS 5.4, Linux 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 athlon 07:05:30 up 1 day, 10:38, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.07, 0.07
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 04:26 -0700, Joshua Gimer wrote:
Could you please post the full output of the yum update? Also, are you using any additional yum repos outside of the default centos repo or any plugins?
Thanks Josh
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote: Hi,
I recently downloaded and burned the 5.4 DVD ISO. All my machines are now running 5.4, but these are installs I performed with 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 etc. and then progressively upgraded. Now I had to use 5.4 because a friend's laptop, a brandnew Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile, refuses to boot anything under 5.4. After a fresh install of the base system, first thing I do is 'yum update' with the default setup... only this time, nothing happens. I stays about a minute or two on 'Determining fastest mirror'... and then tells me : "Could not retrieve mirrorlist..." On the other hand, 'yum update' on all the other installs (from older CentOS disks) works correctly. What's wrong? Niki _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Am 15.11.09 08:29, schrieb Niki Kovacs:
After a fresh install of the base system, first thing I do is 'yum update' with the default setup... only this time, nothing happens. I stays about a minute or two on 'Determining fastest mirror'... and then tells me :
"Could not retrieve mirrorlist..."
So can you get a mirrorlist by hand? Can you reach the mirrorlist.centos.org server? Are you behind a proxy?
See CentOS-Base.repo for the mirrorhost url and replace $arch with your architecture and $releasever with 5 ...
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt a écrit :
So can you get a mirrorlist by hand? Can you reach the mirrorlist.centos.org server? Are you behind a proxy?
See CentOS-Base.repo for the mirrorhost url and replace $arch with your architecture and $releasever with 5 ...
I did quite some experimentation, and I think I found a regressive bug (well, sort of) in CentOS 5.4. I did this on three distinct machines, with the same result. Here goes.
In previous versions of CentOS (that is, 5.0 to 5.3), it was possible to perform a very minimal install by deselecting [ ] GNOME, then selecting [*] Customize package selection, and then again, in the subsequent package selection window, unselect everything, even [ ] Base. That way, in 5.3, I got a system with about 160 packages, which I took as a starting point for both servers (install httpd, mysql-server, whatever is needed) and desktops (install X11, GNOME, apps as needed).
But now, this functionality seems broken. If I do the same thing with a fresh CentOS 5.4 install DVD, I see I now have a minimal set of 191 packages (gtk2? What the ***!?!). On the other hand, neither SSH nor Yum nor even RPM don't work, as they all claim a missing libnss3.so. Now here's a Catch22, since I can't install it when RPM is not working (except by mounting the system with a LiveCD and jump through some burning loops).
Of course, I took the pragmatic approach and just installed the whole load of "base" packages. rpm -qa | wc -l tells me I now have a "minimal" set of no less than 378 packages to have a coherent base system (without X).
Any idea why the minimal install selection got broken, or some suggestions on how to solve that problem?
Cheers,
Niki