On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 10:17, Eli wrote: > I'm seeing yum hang & choke on my systems. Any clues as to why? Anything I > should experiment with? > > Here is a common case: > [root@shield yum]# yum -d8 upgrade > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base > CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/base > Getting header.info from server > failover: baseURL = http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1 > failover: path = /headers/header.info > [....sit here for a minute or two...] > headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/base/header.info > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "yummain.py", line 188, in main > File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers > File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad > ValueError: unpack list of wrong size > [root@shield yum]# > > I also see it get stuck while downloading a package to upgrade. > This is in the archives - the mirror you are using is overloaded. Instead of handing back a valid header.info file for this repository it is handing back garbage. use a different mirror. Also the latest daily release of yum catches the error but it can't fix the problem. - the problem is with your mirror. -sv
