Hello,

I'm having a yum problem updating a system on Centos 5.3, 64-bit ... i.e. 'yum update' returns "No Packages Marked for Update". Problem appears to be related to connecting to the mirrors where the repositories are located but I could be wrong in that. What's confusing me is that I have another system (Centos 5.5, 32-bit) that's working fine.

Best way to illustrate this is to show the output from the ("bad") 5.3 system when I run 'yum -v list available'

[root@servername yum]# yum -v list available Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Config time: 0.031 Running "init" handler for "fastestmirror" plugin Yum Version: 3.2.19 COMMAND: yum -v list available Installroot: / Ext Commands:

available Setting up Package Sacks Running "postreposetup" handler for "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile pkgsack time: 0.000 Reading Local RPMDB rpmdb time: 0.000 Setting up Package Sacks pkgsack time: 0.000

Similarly the the first few lines of the output from the ("good") 5.5 system when I run 'yum -v list available'

[root@other_server_name yum]# yum -v list available | more Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Config time: 0.032 Yum Version: 3.2.22 Setting up Package Sacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk * base: ftp.heanet.ie * extras: anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk * updates: anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk pkgsack time: 0.029 rpmdb time: 0.000 Available Packages Cluster_Administration-as-IN.noarch 5.2-1.el5.centos base Cluster_Administration-bn-IN.noarch 5.2-1.el5.centos base

The contents of /var/cache/yum seems to be the same for both systems, as does the file /etc/yum.conf.

Would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Thanks, John.