On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:54 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > I'm getting reports like "yum doesn't work from my home system", with errors > like: > > $ yum upgrade > Setting up Upgrade Process > Setting up repositories > bulinux-devel 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > ftp://linst.bu.edu/yum/4.5/base/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: > [Errno ftp error] timed out > Trying other mirror. > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: bulinux-base > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from bulinux-base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors > to try. > > I had the user try "urlgrabber > ftp://linst.bu.edu/yum/4.5/base/i386/repodata/repomd.xml"; and that works > fine. Any guess what's going on here? there shouldn't be any difference in those two commands at all. Can you replicate this and tcpdump it? -sv
