I have a woefully dumb question. When I tell my wife’s laptop, with CentOS 7 installed and a live ethernet cable plugged into it, “yum update,” it fails saying that it doesn’t see any repos. What do I need to do to?
4 thoughts on - VDQ Repos For CentOS 7
Am 04.08.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Beartooth:
Without a precise error messge (copy & paste what is printed out) it is hard to judge.
rpm -V CentOS-release
If that command does not print out anything then the default CentOS repo definitions are there and set. I then would guess the laptop does not have internet connectivity. Validate that
Had that as a sign forever on my wall. I probably should make a new one.
This is very helpful. I’m old and slow, and it may take me a while, but many many thanks!
Yes. In fact, I brought it upstairs and replaced my normal #3 PC
behind the KVM switch with it, and rebooted it.
I see boot messages (on the Thinkpad, not on my proper monitor;
but it does seem to react to the keyboard I’m on now). The boot messages go past “Started GNOME Display Manager,” followed twice by saying it couldn’t find an input interrupt endpoint (with differing strings of gibberish).
Can any machine not on a network be pinged??
I seldom feel so helpless and hapless as when I find myself at a machine with no connection to any network. :-{
4 thoughts on - VDQ Repos For CentOS 7
Am 04.08.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Beartooth:
Without a precise error messge (copy & paste what is printed out) it is hard to judge.
rpm -V CentOS-release
If that command does not print out anything then the default CentOS repo definitions are there and set. I then would guess the laptop does not have internet connectivity. Validate that
ip a s
prints out a valid network address. And that
ip r s
has a valid route to reach the internet.
Is any internet address like http://www.google.com reachable from the system?
Alexander
Standard troubleshooting 101:
Have you rebooted?
Can you ping it?
If no then hit us up.
Had that as a sign forever on my wall. I probably should make a new one.
This is very helpful. I’m old and slow, and it may take me a while, but many many thanks!
Yes. In fact, I brought it upstairs and replaced my normal #3 PC
behind the KVM switch with it, and rebooted it.
I see boot messages (on the Thinkpad, not on my proper monitor;
but it does seem to react to the keyboard I’m on now). The boot messages go past “Started GNOME Display Manager,” followed twice by saying it couldn’t find an input interrupt endpoint (with differing strings of gibberish).
Can any machine not on a network be pinged??
I seldom feel so helpless and hapless as when I find myself at a machine with no connection to any network. :-{