Fix "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo" in CentOS

Background

Since CentOS 7 has reached EOL, the mirror is moved to vault. When yum is executed, it will return an error "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64".

Solution

We need to update CentOS-Base.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.

Uncomment the lines starting with baseurl.
Update all http://mirrorlist.centos.org to http://vault.centos.org.
Update all http://mirror.centos.org to http://vault.centos.org.
We can clear the cache with sudo yum clean all.

Commands:

repo_file=/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
cp ${repo_file} ~/CentOS-Base.repo.backup
sudo sed -i s/#baseurl/baseurl/ ${repo_file}
sudo sed -i s/mirrorlist.centos.org/vault.centos.org/ ${repo_file}
sudo sed -i s/mirror.centos.org/vault.centos.org/ ${repo_file}
sudo yum clean all

This is how the file looks like.

# CentOS-Base.repo
#
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client.  You should use this for CentOS updates
# unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the 
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.
#
#

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://vault.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#released updates 
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://vault.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://vault.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://vault.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

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Fix "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo" in CentOS

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