Sounds like a problem with excessive and unnecessary attention to metadata.

On 6/4/10, nodata <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/06/10 19:29, Bill Watson wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I know enough to get into trouble, and maybe a little bit more. This
>> morning
>> I hooked one of my customer's rhel 5 computers to rhn to get updates using
>> run_register from their system and that went well it seemed.
>>
>> Then I got all uppity and tried to do a yum update. The system told me of
>> all the packages that were in need of updating and then spoke of all the
>> dependencies. So far so good. Then it was time to download the
>> packages....
>> I got the following stuff to read:
>>
>> Total download size: 849 M
>> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>> Downloading Packages:
>>
>>
>> Error Downloading Packages:
>>    netpbm-devel - 10.35.58-8.el5.x86_64: failed to retrieve
>> getPackage/netpbm-dev
>> el-10.35.58-8.el5.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5
>> error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>>    enscript - 1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.x86_64: failed to retrieve
>> getPackage/enscript-1.
>> 6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5
>> error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>>    redhat-rpm-config - 8.0.45-32.el5.noarch: failed to retrieve
>> getPackage/redhat
>> -rpm-config-8.0.45-32.el5.noarch.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5
>> error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>> (and on and on for pages)
>>
>>
>> What would a reasonable troubleshooting sequence be? It is certainly
>> possible that this customer, also knowing enough to get into trouble, has
>> who knows how many rules in his router to prevent me from updating his
>> computer. Perhaps my customer is innocent and the system has something set
>> to goof up.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for guidance!
>> Bill Watson
>> [email protected]
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Mind if I ask you something, because either my e-mail client
> (Thunderbird) is playing up with threading, or it isn't.
>
> Did you start this thread by replying to another thread and changing the
> subject?
>
> Thanks.
>
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