[CentOS] Centos 7 yum search giving Could not retrieve mirrorlist
Eero Volotinen
eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Mon Sep 14 16:07:08 UTC 2015
Is your dns working correctly? (for example get hostname for
mirrorlist.centos.org, try using command 'host mirrorlist.centos.org)
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Eero
2015-09-14 18:59 GMT+03:00 Shawn Parks - CMAC <shawnparks at cmacmail.biz>:
> Centos main list,
> I am working on a Centos 7 system and trying to do the following.
>
> yum search cups-lpd
>
> I am getting the following
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock
> error was
> 12: Timeout on
> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock:
> (28, 'Resolving timed out after 30382 milliseconds')
>
>
> One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
> and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the
> only
> safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:
>
> 1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the
> problem.
>
> 2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a
> working
> upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
> distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
> packages for the previous distribution release still work).
>
> 3. Disable the repository, so yum won't use it by default. Yum will
> then
> just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it again
> or use
> --enablerepo for temporary usage:
>
> yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>
>
> 4. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is
> unavailable.
> Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most
> commands,
> so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be
> much
> slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a
> nice
> compromise:
>
> yum-config-manager --save
> --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true
>
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I am using cups on this Centos 7 machine. Which prints fine from the
> Centos to my
> print queue's
>
> However I have an Sco Unix system using lpd printing that I am trying to
> send print
> jobs to the Centos 7 system and those are not even getting to the system.
> I get message: waiting on queue to be enabled
>
>
> QUESTION FOR main list:
> Is the Centos 7 "yum" commands being worked on?
> When might this be fixed?
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn ( CMAC )
> phone 618 / 242 - 4020 ext 21
> fax 618 / 242 - 3383
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