----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Horne" <john.horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 11:42:28 AM > Subject: Re: F22: dnf - seems to do nothing? > > On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 06:24 -0400, Radek Holy wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have just installed F22 (KDE spin) onto my laptop at home. After > > > installation I ran 'dnf update' and it installed a load of patches. > > > However, now whenever I invoke dnf it seems to do nothing (no output on > > > terminal). My first thought was to perhaps try using 'strace' to see > > > what it was doing, but of course I can't install it. A reboot made no > > > difference. > > > > > > > > can you run it with the --verbose switch and the environment variable > > LIBREPO_DEBUG=1? Can you share your dnf.log? File a bug with all these > > information, please. > > > > "dnf clean all" may work around it. > > > Hello, > > Thanks for this. I have now solved the problem. > > The 'clean all' made no difference. However the 'dnf -v' showed that the > process was waiting on the mirror server for some reason. The dnf log > showed the URL it was trying to use, and when I tried this in a browser > it worked fine (the XML file was displayed). However, when I tried with > 'curl -v' it hung up. The problem was with the EPSV command: > > ==== > < 250 Directory successfully changed. > > EPSV > * Connect data stream passively > 421 Timeout.ng Extended Passive Mode (|||14410|) > * Connection time-out > * Failed EPSV attempt. Disabling EPSV > > PASV > * response reading failed > * Closing connection 0 > curl: (56) response reading failed > ==== > > Running curl with the '--disable-epsv' option, and the file downloaded > immediately. > > I then found someone else had recently reported a similar problem: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=305034 > > By enabling the 'fastestmirror' option in dnf, downloads now work fine. > > What is a bit annoying is that the original mirror being used was the > one at the University of Kent here in the UK. Fortunately the > 'fastestmirror' has chosen a different mirror, but I guess at some > future time the problem could emerge again if that mirror gets selected. > > I'll see about letting the mirror know of the problem. > > > > John. > > -- > John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 > Plymouth University, UK Then, you've probably hit this bug in librepo: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219817. librepo-1.7.16-1.fc22 should fix the problem. -- Radek Holý Associate Software Engineer Software Management Team Red Hat Czech -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
