[CentOS] Getting to Mate or Xfce

[Jonathan Billings]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 03:43:02PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> 	Related problem: when I become root and tell it "yum update," it 
> figures out a list of umpteen hundred rpms to update, but then runs 
> through attempts at mirrors and keeps failing till it runs out. It failed 
> to connect to my wireless router (or even to find it, afaict). So I 
> plugged it into the router with an ethernet cable. No joy.

This sounds like you have cached metadata that points to older files
that are no longer on the mirrors.

Try running 'yum clean metadata' and try updating again.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>