On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:19, David Relson wrote: > Hi, > > What does "retrygrab() failed for ..." mean? It means the retry attempts all failed. when yum cannot reach a repository it retries. It will do this equal to [main]retries= times. > [root@osage log]# yum check-update > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Mandrake Linux 9.2 - Base > Server: Mandrake 9.2 - Contribs > Server: Mandrake Linux 9.2 - Updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > retrygrab() failed for: > > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/updates/9.2/i586/headers/XFree86-server-0-4.3-24.1.92mdk.i586.hdr > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/updates/9.2/i586/headers/XFree86-server-0-4.3-24.1.92mdk.i586.hdr > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): > > Does this indicate a problem in yum, my configuration, or at the mirror? I'd guess either: 1. repository or 2. someone put a transparent proxy up w/o telling you and it's timing out keepalives quickly. try 1 first. -sv
