-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Shumaker wrote: > I don't understand why I keep getting time out socket errors in yum. On > one pass, it started several times to download one package. It kept > timing out. (Each time it times out, it moves to the next mirror and > starts anew.) I launched gFTP and used that to download the package > (7.1M) from one of the mirrors that timed out in yum. It stalled > several times but never "timed out". It kept going and got the whole > thing. > > Why is yum so tempermental? It does this each and every time on > "primary.xml.gz". Almost every time I invoke yum, it goes through all > the mirrors and still doesn't get "primary.xml.gz". >
Try a different mirror. You were getting a 404 error. - -- Mark Wolfe Lakeside, Ca. http://www.wolfenet.org gpg fingerprint = 42B6 EFEB 5414 AA18 01B7 64AC EF46 F7E6 82F6 8C71 "OK. Enter system password, out of ttys, can't fork process, Panic Double Panic, can't open socket, bad magic number, NO ROUTE TO HOST, hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January 1970." - sing, sing, halt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEJbVo70b35oL2jHERAmHNAKCcLI7q48BNtnS2LczGemTGbH0CegCgo+Dz PcZR0ZBGvK1ADN2jCjtZz7w= =c9lv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
