Yum and software updates not working. No software sources

[giomol]

Hi, I just upgraded from Fedora 10 to 11. After the upgrade, I was unable to update the system and my Software Sources does not display any repositories at all. Yum didn't work also. I tried a couple of things from similar problems posted in the forum, but it didn't help in my case. I get this if I ask yum for the repolist.

[alfy@localhost ~]$ yum repolist
Configuration file /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/blacklist.conf not found
Unable to find configuration file for plugin blacklist
Configuration file /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/refresh-packagekit.conf not found
Unable to find configuration file for plugin refresh-packagekit
Configuration file /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/whiteout.conf not found
Unable to find configuration file for plugin whiteout
repolist: 0

Can someone help me fix this problem?
Thank you very much

[manuleka]

that doesn't look so good... are the repo files still in /etc/yum.repo.d/ folder?

ls /etc/yum.repo.d/

[giomol]

Unfortunately the folder is empty.

[alfy@localhost ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repo.d/
ls: cannot access /etc/yum.repo.d/: No such file or directory
[alfy@localhost ~]$

[marko]

That's actually /etc/yum.repos.d

note the missing "s" in yours

[manuleka]

Originally Posted by marko

That's actually /etc/yum.repos.d

note the missing "s" in yours

yes sorry

ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

[giomol]

Yes, thank you. The folder is empty.

[alfy@localhost ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
[alfy@localhost ~]$

[marko]

Originally Posted by manuleka

yes sorry

ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

So you're saying it's not that you ran ls on the wrong directory but the directory really is empty?

Try:

First see if the system already thinks it has fedora-release package installed:

rpm -q fedora-release

if that returns nothing, then do as root:

rpm -ivh --oldpackage ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/lin...1-1.noarch.rpm

use i386 instead of x86_64 in that URL above if you're actually on 32bit Fedora
(although it probably doesn't matter since the fedora-release package is
not arch specific. The oldpackage option would only be needed if the
rpm -q command showed you already had fedora-release installed but some how the repo files got lost.

Basically "fedora-release" is the package that contains all the files in /etc/yum.repos.d, this is a listing of all
the files it has:

/etc/fedora-release
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-11-primary
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ia64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-ppc64
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64
/etc/redhat-release
/etc/rpm/macros.dist
/etc/system-release
/etc/system-release-cpe
/etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-11
/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-11/GPL

[giomol]

It returns this:

[alfy@localhost ~]$ rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-11-1.noarch
[alfy@localhost ~]$

I tried the install but I got this:

[root@localhost alfy]# rpm -ivh --oldpackage ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/lin...1-1.noarch.rpm
Retrieving ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/lin...1-1.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.KqhLmM: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID d22e77f2
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package fedora-release-11-1.noarch is already installed
[root@localhost alfy]#

[marko]

Originally Posted by giomol

It returns this:

[alfy@localhost ~]$ rpm -q fedora-release
fedora-release-11-1.noarch
[alfy@localhost ~]$

I tried the install but I got this:

[root@localhost alfy]# rpm -ivh --oldpackage ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/lin...1-1.noarch.rpm
Retrieving ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/lin...1-1.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.KqhLmM: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID d22e77f2
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package fedora-release-11-1.noarch is already installed
[root@localhost alfy]#

Ok, try update instead of install:

rpm -Uiv --replacepkgs ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/lin...1-1.noarch.rpm

The majority of the original package is there, it's just that the *repo files are lost for some reason.

[giomol]

Thank you very much Marko,
This last one really worked. I had about 3.5 GB of updates to install.
I now have fedora 11 and fedora 11 updates checked in the software sources.
Thank you again for helping me fix this.
If I might ask one more question...
would you know why Xine no longer plays my divx files? I have xvidcore i386 1.2.1-1.fc10 installed but the player writes that xvid is an unsupported codec.
Thanks again

[manuleka]

it could be that it doesn't support the particular divx file format... is the codec updated to fc11? I suggest downloading VLC. VLC can prettymuch play any audio or video file type you can throw at it, the only problem with VLC is that it doesn't play some file format as good as some other Media Players...

i still have issues with some of my wma files... i have installed every codec that i could come across online from gstreamer good bad ugly to xmms-*, windows codecs etc... and i still have 400+ wma files that in Linux just can't be played on any of the 8+ media players (with all codecs installed) that i have ended up installing just to try and get all my music files playable...

the files are fine because i can play them in Windows XP

[giomol]

in my case, the files use to work very well in fedora 10. After my upgrade to 11 both movie player and xine don't play them anymore. A lot of them were made in fedora 10 with dvdrip in xvid .avi format. The ones I made in windows are divx, they also don't play .mpg seems to work fine. Any suggestions that could help? Thanks

[giomol]

I was finally able to ad freshrpms and rpmfusion repositories to my Software Sources but I'm unable to install any updates from them because it gives me a missing public key error for every single update:

Error checking package signatures:
Public key for lame-3.98.2-3.fc11.i586.rpm is not installed

Would anyone know how to fix this?
Thank you very much

[giomol]

Finally solved the problem.
I don't know how to link different threads, but you can probably find this one, like I did, doing a search for "public key". The thread title is:
Another YUM issue in F11_64
It helped a lot.
I had to do:

yum update rpmfusion-free-release --nogpgcheck

and

yum update rpmfusion-nonfree-release --nogpgcheck

then

yum clean all

then

yum update

After that I was able to use yum extender to update all my rpmfusion updates.

I hope this will help user with similar problems.
Best

[Draconis Rex]

Originally Posted by marko

Ok, try update instead of install:

rpm -Uiv --replacepkgs ftp://ftp.uci.edu/mirrors/fedora/lin...1-1.noarch.rpm

The majority of the original package is there, it's just that the *repo files are lost for some reason.

Upgrading to Fedora 11 has been one of the worst experiences I've ever had with Fedora.

After upgrading I had to repair the MBR due to the infinite "GRUB GRUB GRUB" issue.

When the system does boot it now gives the "IO APIC resources could be not be allocated" message, which I've yet to resolve.

KDE is broken with the "kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The error code is 127. Check your installation." message being displayed on login.

ntpd is failing during init due to libcrpto.so.7 not being found.

Yum doesn't work due to missing software sources.

The last issue is what brings me to this forum, as getting yum working will hopefully allow me to fix my KDE & NTPD issues. (What else got lost in the upgrade though?) If this weren't a triple booting system that took a fair bit of work to set up I'd cold install F11 and be done with it.

I've tried the solution presented but the software sources remains empty. Ideas? Thnx.