> For my local upgrade (?), I've try to run yum but I was connected to the > internet (I've just a 33600 connection, no adsl at all, as I live in a > little island). > The upgrade process failed, because I was not connected to the internet. > I've got a message as : > executing failover method > Error getting file > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/header.info > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest: which means it could not access that url - but it does exist - just that your machine couldn't get to it. > Same problem here, as the info you give on the Yum web site about the > jpackage repository is wrong. Yum aborted because of that. the info I give on the yum website is what I got from the jpackage website a while back. if it is out of date file a bug against the yum website component with the right information and I'll get it fixed. > etrygrab() failed for: > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jpackage/direct_download/1.5/generic/free/h > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jpackage/direct_download/1 > [Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong right so it got the wrong info. > [root@celtes2 etc]# nedit yum.conf > This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. > The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted > in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running > the > program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the > executable. > Cannot convert string "%s" to type %s umm - that error is from nedit - not from yum. It has nothing to do at all with yum. It is throwing this error b/c you're running nedit as root. > I guess it should skip the wrong repository, to go on the next one. it does. IF you have more the one baseurl listed. But if it fails, entirely, to contact a repository it exits. to do otherwise is dangerous. -sv
