Seth, The following exchange with Garrick was off-list. I'm including the list on this reply (per Garrick's request). Ciao, David On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:09:20 -0800 Garrick Staples <garrick@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:43:17PM -0500, David Relson alleged: > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 09:38:53 -0800 > > Garrick Staples <garrick@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:47:58AM -0500, David Relson alleged: > > > > ...[snip]... > > > > > I think we can find a better solution. Using ftp means that yum > > > will fail every now and then because the server has a max number > > > of users. Using http generally works better much better for > > > automated things like yum cronjobs. But if http://mirrors.usc.edu > > > isn't working for you, then I'd like to know. > > > > > > Can you successfully download that .hdr with wget or another http > > > client? > > > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/updates/9.2/i586/headers/XFree86-server-0-4.3-24.1.92mdk.i586.hdr' > > > Can you visit http://mirrors.usc.edu in a web browser? > > > > Hi Garrick, > > > > No problem with the web browser. I can access the site and "wget > > -nd -c http:...XFree...hdr" works like the proverbial champ. > > > > I've had the cron job running since Dec 28. The first two days the > > output (delivered by email) was: > > > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > > Server: Mandrake Linux 9.2 - Base > > Server: Mandrake Linux 9.2 - Updates > > Finding updated packages > > Downloading needed headers > > > > Evidently on Dec 28 I added "contribs" for the Dec 29 output was: > > > > 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 > > Name Arch Version > > > > Repo > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > libgcrypt1 i586 1.1.12-1mdk > > > > contrib > > newpg i586 0.9.4-2mdk > > > > contrib > > > > The retrygrab problem first happened on Dec 30 2003 and has happened > > on every run since then. > > > > The output (with error) looks like: > > > > retrygrab() failed for: > > > > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/9.2/i586/headers/gcj-tools-0-3.3.1-2mdk.i586.hdr > > Executing failover method > > failover: out of servers to try > > Error getting file > > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/9.2/i586/headers/gcj-tools-0-3.3.1-2mdk\.i586.hdr > > [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest): > > 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 > > > > I'm guessing that the mis-ordering of output is stderr before > > stdout. > > > > This morning I discovered that ftp works better, though I don't know > > why. FYI I've attached yum.conf.old which is the problematical > > (http/retrygrab) config. > > > > A test run of "yum check-updates" at 14:28:05 EST had no troubles, > > perhaps because there were no new headers to transfer. > > > > I'm unaware of changes at my end that could have caused the problem. > > My > > firewall machine wasn't rebooted between Nov 2 and Jan 6 and no rpms > > were installed between Dec 28 and Dec 29 (according to > > /var/log/syslog). > > > > Have you any idea of what's happening? Perhaps checking your logs > > for my ip address (216.144.204.42) will reveal something. The time > > should be 03:38 EST. > > > > If there's more info that I can supply, I'll do what I can. > > > > Cheers! > > > > David > > I don't know what to say. Your other http clients can retrieve those > files, but not yum. Nothing happend on Dec 30, we didn't change > anything. > > I see you downloading the header.info files a few files. > 216.144.204.42 - - [09/Jan/2004:00:37:07 -0800] "GET > /pub/yum-repository/mandrake/9.2/i586/headers/header.info HTTP/1.1" > 200 208592 216.144.204.42 - - [09/Jan/2004:00:37:11 -0800] "GET > /pub/yum-repository/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586/headers/header.info > HTTP/1.1" 200 253331 216.144.204.42 - - [09/Jan/2004:00:37:14 -0800] > "GET /pub/yum-repository/mandrake/updates/9.2/i586/headers/header.info > HTTP/1.1" 200 14007 Garrick, Here's my end of today's transaction (from email timestamped 09/Jan/2004:03:37): 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): 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 ### The following is from my manual ftp attempt ### > And the XFree86.hdr. > And the XFree86.hdr. > 216.144.204.42 - - [09/Jan/2004:11:38:03 -0800] "GET > /pub/yum-repository/mandrake/updates/9.2/i586/headers/XFree86-server- > 0-4.3-24.1.92mdk.i586.hdr HTTP/1.0" 200 16046 > > Might want to tell seth that inexplicitly, only your yum can't > download those files. Seth -- please note the above statement. I am, of course, available to provide additional info and run tests. David
