Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. run yum update 2. it fails 3. on fedora core 4 after last update Actual results: yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (2, 'No such file or directory')> Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Expected results: it should spit out a bunch of messages like it normally does Additional info: Name : yum Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.4.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 1.fc4 Build Date: Mon 05 Dec 2005 08:09:17 AM PST Install Date: Fri 23 Dec 2005 06:46:00 PM PST Build Host: hs20-bc1-4.build.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.src.rpm Size : 1249806 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 12 Dec 2005 10:11:06 AM PST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://linux.duke.edu/yum/ Summary : RPM installer/updater Description : Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and install updated RPM packages. Dependencies are obtained and downloaded automatically prompting the user as necessary.
I think I found a work around. It seems that after the last time I ran yum it upgraded my nsswitch.conf file. It changed my hosts settings in that file to: hosts: files nisplus dns I changed it back to: file dns nisplus as I don't use nis. It now seems to work again. I think the bug is in glibc-2.3.6-3 assuming everyone uses nis
Caused by a glibc bug
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186592 ***