On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:23 -0400, gary wrote: > Yum, > > An imporatant BUG has appeared in yum version 2.3.2 that did not appear in > previous versions.... Yum is unusable to a huge number of people.... This > error appears constantly when trying to do an update: > > [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out > > a fedoraforum member found that if he places the following line in his > yum.conf it goes away: > > proxy=http://192.168.0.1:87 > > We are sure it is a yum problem, because all our other internet programs, and > browsers work just fine without this time out/socket error.... And all > previous version of yum worked just fine.... This BUG has just been written > in the new version.... > If you have a bug, or if a series of people have a bug with yum in fedora - please file a bug in red hat's bugzilla. That's the best way to track these items. thanks, -sv
