On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:59, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote: > Hi > > I just installed Fedora Core 1 and would like to check for updates using > yum. I edited /etc/yum.conf to look like this: > > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=fedora-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > retries=10 > > [fedora-us-1] > name=Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror > baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os > > [fedora-us-1-updates] > name=Fedora Core 1 updates -- Fedora US mirror > baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates > > [fedora-us-1-stable] > name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror > baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable > > When I try running 'yum info', I get the following output: > > [root@caotsndc500 root]# yum info > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror > retrygrab() failed for: > > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os/headers/ > header.info > Executing failover method > retrygrab() failed for: > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os/headers/head > er.info > Executing failover method > retrygrab() failed for: > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os/headers/ > header.info > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): > > I am behind a proxy, so I created http_proxy variable. When I use just the > "proxy_name:port#", I get the above error. I checked the archives and found > a way to add userID and password, but when I tried providing user:password > in that variable, I got an error about an invalid proxy port number. My > proxy userID contains an '@' character, I think that causes the port number > error. Is there a way to make yum client work on my network? TIA. > pull down the latest yum daily from: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.0/daily/ then set keepalive=0 under [main] in your yum.conf tell me if it fixes the problem. thanks -sv
