[CentOS] yum errors

Scott Robbins
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:54:23 -0000

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 08:23:29PM -0700, Wes James
wrote:
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> > On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:03 PM, Wes James <comptekki at me.com>
wrote:
> >
>
>
> > I finally just did yum update on this box (actually 6.3) and now it is
6.7.  During the update it created a CentOS-Base.repo.rpmnew file.  I renamed my
current one and this one to just .repo and  now I again get:
> >
> > ----
> >
> > yum update
> > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> > Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock
<http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock>
error was
> > 12: Timeout on
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock:
<http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock:>
(28, 'connect() timed out!')
> > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
> >

>
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto
>
> So maybe the presto plugin is causing the problem.  Anyone else using
presto plugin??

I use presto without problems.  You can try disabling any plugin by going
to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d and in the files there, change enabled from 1 to 0

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