[CentOS] Centos 5.2 upgrade - urlopen error unknown url type: media

[Robert Moskowitz]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:46:12 -0400:
>
>   
>> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
>>     
>
> Searching the local folder of this list reveals two older postings from 
> you about this (one from December, one a few days ago). It seems to 
> indicate that your repo is not completely in sync. Either a new sync or 
> clean all got you going last time ;-)
The other times a

yum clean all

did the job.  Problems with old metadata, it would seem.

This time I did the clean first and still got the error.

I ran a rsync and did not get any updates to base.