[khafa]

for the yum problem can you run the next command as root and post the output

yum update

[thedude704]

ok so that grep code didnt do anything
just produced a blinking curser

the you update yeilded this error

[root@localhost matt]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/updates-debuginfo/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates-debuginfo. Please verify its path and try again
[root@localhost matt]#

[thedude704]

also i want to thank you for taking time and investigating my troubles

[khafa]

hi,

you welcome.

now you have two different problems.
a) you need to install binutils
b) you need to fix yum

i think it would be wiser to fix yum first as it will allow you to install binutils and
other packages later on.

for yum can you post the content of /etc/yum.repos.d/

ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/

[thedude704]

[root@localhost matt]# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1834 2008-04-27 10:40 fedora-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1084 2008-04-27 10:40 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 994 2008-04-27 10:40 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1067 2008-04-27 10:40 fedora-updates-testing.repo

ive added all the repositories in the system>administration>software sources

[khafa]

hi,


try to clean up everything with yum as follows and update. post the result

yum clean all

yum clean metadata

yum clean dbcache

yum --noplugins update

[thedude704]

one thing i forgot to mention is that this is a fresh install the first thing i was trying to do was this update. the report of the last instructions are as follows:

[matt@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost matt]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Cleaning up Everything
[root@localhost matt]# yum clean metadata
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
0 metadata files removed
0 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed
[root@localhost matt]# yum clean dbcache
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
0 sqlite files removed
[root@localhost matt]# yum --noplugins update
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/updates-debuginfo/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates-debuginfo. Please verify its path and try again
[root@localhost matt]#

[thedude704]

um i browsed to that folder and there is no mirrorlist.txt file maybe this is the problem?

[khafa]

yeah it looks like yum doesnt recognize your repositories(does not see the mirrorlist).

go to this thread and do what is described there.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...yum-repos.html

[thedude704]

yea i started reading that one and i dont understand what they mean by "Pick your version then a mirror and download the fedora-release package from the Everything directory," i clicked all over that site and did not see any sort of directory. i selected my version x86_64 from the top right and found a mirror in the US where im located then it brings me to sort of an FTP looking situation

parent directory

development

extras

releases

updates

theres a tree of things under each of those catagories but ive not found anything that says everything folder

am i just doin this wrong or what?