[SOLVED] RPM installer borked

[flobnoit]

Sure enough, it's something legacy in the home folder that's causing my headaches. I'll sort out what it is and report back. Thanks for the support

---------- Post added at 08:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:10 PM ----------

Alright. That's solved the gui-rpm installer. But it looks like i've still got something funky going on (although this is a different problem); yum can't hit the rpmfusion server, exits with

Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-17&arch=x86_64 error was
14: curl#6 - "Couldn't resolve host"

Any thoughts on this then? I've got no proxies, I've tried switching IPv6 off and to automatic, and some other things... all to no avail. I'll post a new thread about this though unless you've got an idea. [EDIT:] Nvm - found another thread about this exact issue

Thanks again Fenrin!

[shoenig]

.... Which other thread?

I'm having the exact same problem.

[flobnoit]

Hey Shoenig, sorry I'm not around a lot.
That's an excellent question unfortunately... I haven't any idea. I just booted for the first time in a while, and I've got such a plethora of other problems going on at present...

Let me begin by asking: when you got to F17 (assuming that's what you're using), did you re-mount an old /home directory?

(Oh, possibly I was referring to a thread that I found that said that RPMFusion was down for a bit... but I'm having issues again after reinstalling the rpmfusion-free, which I wasn't having 20 minutes ago...)

---------- Post added at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:29 PM ----------

Alright- So I had yet another look about: turns out that my install has been defaultly using my modem to get it's DNS. And my modem is some little crapbox from ATT through their UVerse internet. Anyway- it's immutable DNS is sbc which ...

Story told: Changed my DNS in network Manager under IPv4 tab from

Automatic

to

Automatic (DHCP) addresses only

and used 8.8.8.8 in my DNS servers line- problems solved. RPMFusion works again, as well as wget (for all addresses)

Hope that helps?