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On 06/11/13 20:54, Kevin Lucas wrote: > HI all > Does anyone use Yum? > > I have in on a new x86_64 mobo with Fedora 18 and get constantly > http://mirror.arlug.ro/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 14] curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: mirror.arlug.ro; Name or service not > known" > this is repeated for all the mirrors ad inf... > > Dns is OK and I can ping all of them. > I have yum cleaned all /updated etc but to no avail. > > Tinkering as you do I tried the plugins Enable / disable to no avail but > when I changed exectarch from 1 to 0 in yum.conf all is working ok > > is this risky? > > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever > keepcache=0 > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > exactarch=0 > obsoletes=1 > gpgcheck=1 > plugins=1 > installonly_limit=3 > Your yum.repo looks completely normal. The problem is either as Tom suggested, a network issue such as a proxy or permissions, or much more likely the same problem that has plagued Fedora since day 1: syncing of mirrors. They never seem to manage to keep all of them in perfect lockstep. I tend to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo (and potentially any others such as livna.repo, etc) and comment out the mirrorlist line: Fedora uses this to grab random repos from the main URL, some of which invariably don't work properly. Uncomment the baseurl variable instead and make sure it's set to a sane, major repo instead of one of the hundreds of half-arsed slow ones from some Eastern European University. Mine are usually set to the master: baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ #mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch This situation is even worse in Rawhide, where the mirrors are *never* in sync. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq