06 Nov 08 Forum

I have connected a display and keyboard and logged in then try the command "yum update" at the # command prompt.  The system tried to search for update from a few sites of the fedoral.  After failed to obtain updates from 3  sites, the fourth one seemed to work and the system gradually update itself.  I waited until the prompt running from 0% to 100% then it returned with # prompt again.

I typed in the command "cp /var/…." per instruction on the main page of this website.  It responded with error that read like the following.

http://yum.vortexbox.org/relea…..repomd.xml

[Error 4 IOError:<urlopen error [Error -3] Temporary Failure in name resolution>

Trying other mirror.  

Error: Cannot retrieve repository meta data (repomd.xml) for repository: vortexbox.  Please verify its path and try again.

vortexbox.localdomain ~]#

Please help

When ping vertexbox.org.  it solved name as follows.

"PING vortexbox.org (67.228.235.87) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from esc157.midphase.com (67.228.235.87): icmp_seq=1 ttl=45 time=239ms"

The subsequences repeated responses with different time. I presume that the DNS is ok.

then I type "yum update"  it responded as follows.

"http://yum.vortexbox.org/release/11/i386/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Error 4] IOError:<urlopen error [Error -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>

Trying other mirror.

Error: Cannot retrieve repository metatdata (repomd.xml) for repository: vortexbox.  Please verify its path and try again."

It was the same message the first time.

What else should I check/try?  Thanks.

It yield same result as same error message as above.

Upon "yum clean all" and "yum update"

It has gone through the fedora update by going to sites in Thailand (unix), but faill a few local sites and the third one has "fedora" word on the screen and it had gone through 0-100% update twice on 2 things.  and it tried to get update from http://yum.vortexbox.org/…...  and return with the same error message like it could not find the file from such location.

I tried ping yum.vortexbox.org with success but at <250ms.

I am using a dsl line of Thailand operator.  I ping their DNS and the time is <36ms. but pinging anything outside of Thailand roughly yield >200ms.

Please kindly advise what I could do next.

The system has one strange quirk which did not happen when I first install the VB and use it.  CD tray stuck out all the time.  I closed the tray and for a short while the tray came out again.  I was hoping that the upgrade would overwrite the bug, but so far my VB has tray stick out all the time.

Thanks Andrew for helping so many people enjoy their musics from VB. 

If I rebuild the VB from the ISO image disc, will it wipe out all the directories?  or it just replace the programs portion?

My VortexBox, version 0.9 contains Squeezebox Server.