Is the "yum" repository down?

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Saturday 29 December 2007, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I just built a VMware virtual XO (build 655) and I can't seem to access
> the "yum" repositories:
>
> -bash-3.2# yum search chess
> http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.ship2/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12]
> Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
> olpc_local-ship2. Please verify its path and try again
> -bash-3.2#
>
>
> I haven't put my real XO on the network today -- too busy crawling
> around under my work table dealing with useless KVM switches. ;) But I
> can't think of any reason why this shouldn't work.
>
> P.S.: "wget" on the host is also not happy:
>
> $ wget http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.ship2/repodata/repomd.xml
> --18:30:46--  http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.ship2/repodata/repomd.xml
>            => `repomd.xml'
> Resolving mock.laptop.org... 18.85.46.52
> Connecting to mock.laptop.org|18.85.46.52|:80... failed: Connection
> refused.

try now  you should be fine  lighttpd was not set to start on reboot and 
someone rebooted the box.  it is now fixed.

Dennis