yum giving problems

[spai]

Hello all,
I am totally new to lInux and I know I am using fedora (I dont know which version... How do I find out?).
I tried changing the /etc/yum.conf file and now it looks like this:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
proxy=http://iiscproxy1.serc.iisc.ernet.in:3128

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
[freshrpms]
name=FreshRPMs
mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1

[dag]
name=Dag APT Repository
baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1

[dries]
name=Dries APT/YUM Repository
baseurl=http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dries/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/dries/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
http://dries.studentenweb.org/yum/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1

[newrpms]
name=NewRPMs
baseurl=http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/$basearch/fc$releasever
http://newrpms.atrpms.net/apt/redhat/en/$basearch/fc$releasever
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1

[atrpms]
name=ATrpms - Stable
baseurl=http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/atrpms/download.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/ATrpms/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/at-stable
enabled=1
#gpgcheck=1

Some other threads suggested the problem I have, occurs if my internet is not working or yum is not configured properly... My internet is fine... thus yum config must be wrong!

The Problem: If I try to run anything on yum I get an error message, like the following:

[root@bsr5 yum.repos.d]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Repository dag is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository freshrpms is listed more than once in the configuration
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/6/en/i3...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:05:22 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
Content-Length: 324
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Cache: MISS from s5.serc.iisc.ernet.in
Via: 1.0 s5.serc.iisc.ernet.in (squid/3.0.STABLE8)
Proxy-Connection: close

Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: atrpms

[Seve]

Hello:
You can find out which version of Fedora you are using by opening a terminal and typing and entering the following.

cat /etc/fedora-release

To correct your yum problem or at least to momentarily correct it.

Edit your /etc/yum.conf

su -

gedit /etc/yum.conf

and make it look like below:

PHP Code:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
proxy=http://iiscproxy1.serc.iisc.ernet.in:3128

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d 


Then run

yum clean all

and

yum check-update

and see how it goes.

Seve

[leigh123linux]

FC 6 is unsupported , you should consider updating to F9 or F10.

[spai]

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:
You can find out which version of Fedora you are using by opening a terminal and typing and entering the following.

cat /etc/fedora-release

I did that and it said "Fedora Core Release 6 (Zod)". Thank you

To correct your yum problem or at least to momentarily correct it.

Edit your /etc/yum.conf

su -

gedit /etc/yum.conf

and make it look like below:

PHP Code:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
proxy=http://iiscproxy1.serc.iisc.ernet.in:3128

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d 


Ya well I did that already and have installed xmms and audacious since. Thanks again

Then run

yum clean all

and

yum check-update

and see how it goes.

Seve

Well at least it worked without any error messages, If i have problems I will post again.

Originally Posted by leigh123@linux

FC 6 is unsupported , you should consider updating to F9 or F10.

How did you know it was FC6?!
For the moment I cant. I will do it in a couple of months though. Can you tell me a way to do it? I dont know to install from scratch. Is there a way to directly upgrade?

[leigh123linux]

I knew it was FC6 from the output posted in post #1

http://apt.atrpms.net/fedora/6/en/i386/at-stable/repodata/repomd.xml: