Just to let people know.  We worked this out offline because of the 
large debuging e-mails.

In the end, John needed to pub an extra / after file: in sl.repo and 
sl-errata.repo files.  He also took off the [main] from those files as well.

So that it looked like

baseurl=file:///nfs/SL/40/$basearch/SL/RPMS/

Troy

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi John,
> Usually the only thing that breaks yum is a change of python from under 
> it, or some type of corruption.
> 
> Can you send the output of
>   rpm -q yum
>   rpm -V yum
>   rpm -qa | grep python
>   rpm -V python
>   which python
> 
> If nothing looks suspicious, then we'll try a
>   yum -d4 update yum
> 
> But since that has alot of output, we'll look at the shorter stuff first.
> 
> Troy
> 
> John Rowe wrote:
> 
>> Yum is failing for me fairly spectacularly and I'm not sure if the
>> problem is yum or me. The error I get is:
>>
>> # yum update yum
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up Repos
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ?
>>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 68, in main
>>     result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 413, in doCommands
>>     return self.updatePkgs()
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 932, in updatePkgs
>>     self.doRepoSetup()
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 81, in doRepoSetup
>>     repo.getRepoXML(text=repo)
>>   File "repos.py", line 589, in getRepoXML
>>   File "repos.py", line 566, in get
>>   File "mirror.py", line 414, in urlgrab
>>   File "mirror.py", line 400, in _mirror_try
>>   File "grabber.py", line 619, in urlgrab
>>   File "grabber.py", line 548, in _retry
>>   File "grabber.py", line 605, in retryfunc
>>   File "grabber.py", line 728, in __init__
>>   File "grabber.py", line 795, in _do_open
>>   File "grabber.py", line 886, in _make_request
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open
>>     '_open', req)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain
>>     result = func(*args)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 980, in file_open
>>     return self.open_local_file(req)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 1004, in open_local_file
>>     if not host or \
>> socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>>
>> My yum configuration is brand new since my old configuration suddenly
>> vanished on all four of my machines (I hadn't expected that!). The only
>> two files I have changed are:
>>
>> # cat sl.repo
>> [main]
>> [sl-base]
>> name=SL 4 base
>> baseurl=file://nfs/SL/40/$basearch/SL/RPMS/
>> enabled=1
>>
>> # cat sl-errata.repo
>> [main]
>> [sl-errata]
>> name=SL 4 base
>> baseurl=file://nfs/SL/40/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/
>> enabled=1
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John
> 
> 
> 


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