Hello, This bug is present in Fedora 13, and probably in Fedora 14 aswell.
Initial report about the issue: "Fedora 13 installer fails to fetch some files from FTP mirror and installation fails, wget works ok": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624431 Actual bug: "curl range support (REST) is broken with some FTP servers: "(28) FTP response timeout": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643656 Short version: Anaconda installer uses urlgrabber to grab the rpms from the mirror site, and urlgrabber uses pycurl, which uses curl. When anaconda requests urlgrabber to skip the rpm headers using byte ranges, it makes curl to issue ftp REST command to skip specific amount of bytes. Curl doesn't seem to work with some FTP servers when using the REST command, and the transfer times out, and fails, which makes the whole Fedora installation fail. Example of failing Fedora mirror: ftp.funet.fi (which is the original home of Linux kernel, and it's a very well connected FTP mirror site in Europe). You can reproduce the bug like this: curl -o iputils-20071127-10.fc13.x86_64.rpm --range 1384-1400 ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/iputils-20071127-10.fc13.x86_64.rpm It gives error "(28) FTP response timeout" after around one minute. (1384 is the size of the header in many rpms). -- Pasi -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
