[CentOS] yum update

D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr.

forum at lemcoe.com
Wed Oct 12 01:06:23 UTC 2011


For whatever reason, once a year or so, what you describe happens to
me. Fastermirror plugin always seems to add time to my yum commands,
so I disable it permanently and use a local server.

Marshall

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Damas Ally <damastz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Marshall,
> I just played with the options of enabled=1 and /or enabled=0 and now it
> seems to work, the update is on progress.
> Thanks all for your suggestions and supports provided.
> Regards,
> Eng. Damas A.M
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:27 PM, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. <forum at lemcoe.com>wrote:
>
>> Have you thought about disabling fastestmirror and explicitly
>> providing a mirror to pull down from?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Damas Ally <damastz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Andreas,
>> > Thanks for opening my eyes, it seems that i can not be able to resolve
>> > mirror.centos.org
>> > The machine is connected to the Internet using DHCP server, surprise to
>> me
>> > with great question is that;
>> > WHY i cant resolve mirror.centos.org while i can be able t resolve other
>> > sites?
>> > [root at ict ~]# host google.com
>> > google.com has address 74.125.230.146
>> > google.com has address 74.125.230.145
>> > google.com has address 74.125.230.144
>> > google.com has address 74.125.230.148
>> > google.com has address 74.125.230.147
>> > google.com mail is handled by 50 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
>> > google.com mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
>> > google.com mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
>> > google.com mail is handled by 30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
>> > google.com mail is handled by 40 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
>> > [root at ict ~]# host mirror.centos.org
>> > Host mirror.centos.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>> >
>> > Any idea...
>> > thsnks.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM, <andreas.balg at srf.ch> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello Damas,
>> >>
>> >> yum already tells you what's the problem: Failure in Name resolution
>> >> are the correct DNSServers for your net in /etc/resolv.conf ? What does
>> >> "host mirror.centos.org" Tell you and what happens if you try
>> >> "wget
>> >>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/addons/x86_64/repodata/filelists.xml.gz"
>> >> ?
>> >>
>> >> Got a clue already?
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> Andreas
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> >> Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im
>> >> Auftrag von Damas Ally
>> >> Gesendet: Montag, 10. Oktober 2011 10:57
>> >> An: CentOS mailing list
>> >> Betreff: Re: [CentOS] yum update
>> >>
>> >> Hello Ljubomir,
>> >> I did these one you suggested but still the same problem.
>> >> yum clean all
>> >> yum update
>> >> ....
>> >> The same error.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs
>> >> >wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Vreme: 10/10/2011 10:29 AM, Damas Ally piše:
>> >> > > Greetings,
>> >> > > Can anyone help me on how to fix this problem?
>> >> > > when i run yum update from CLI i got this one
>> >> > >
>> >> > > [root at ict ~]# yum update
>> >> > > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> >> > > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>> >> > >   * base: sunsite.rediris.es
>> >> > >   * extras: sunsite.rediris.es
>> >> > >   * updates: sunsite.rediris.es
>> >> > > ....
>> >> > > ....
>> >> > > ...
>> >> > > ..
>> >> > > --->  Package python-libs.x86_64 0:2.4.3-44.el5_7.1 set to be
>> updated
>> >> > >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/addons/x86_64/repodata/filelists.xml.gz:
>> >> > > [Errno 4] IOError:<urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
>> >> > > resolution')>
>> >> > > Trying other mirror.
>> >> > > Error: failure: repodata/filelists.xml.gz from addons: [Errno 256]
>> No
>> >> > more
>> >> > > mirrors to try.
>> >> > >   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>> >> > >   You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>> >> > >                          package-cleanup --dupes
>> >> > >                          rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >> From there i tried those options but still i cant update.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Centos 5.5
>> >> > >
>> >> > > thanks
>> >> >
>> >> > First thing to do is to run:
>> >> >
>> >> > yum clean all
>> >> > yum update
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> >
>> >> > Ljubomir Ljubojevic
>> >> > (Love is in the Air)
>> >> > PL Computers
>> >> > Serbia, Europe
>> >> >
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