On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 07:30 -0600, Lorin Pino wrote: > I am fairly new to linux, and brand new to yum (switching from Suse to > CentOS). I have been reading tutorials, and centos forum discussions, > but I can't get yum to work: > [root@localhost home]# yum check-update > Setting up repositories > dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > jpackage-fc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > jpackage-generic 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > jpackage-rhel 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > contrib 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > centosplus 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > Reading repository metadata in from local files > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 160 kB 00:38 > http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/redhat/el4/en/i386/dries/RPMS/repodata/primary.xml.gz: > [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out > Trying other mirror. > Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dries: [Errno 256] No more > mirrors to try. > > I have the keys installed. I have tried using the base urls in the > centos-base.repos, but when the computer is "Reading repository metadata > in from local files > primary.xml.gz" it times out after about 15 seconds. There is constant > progress on the status bar, but it only gets 20%, or so, before timing > out, and delivering the errors. I am assuming there is a problem with > my settings, but I don't know what to do from here. Any suggestions? > TIA > _______________________________________________ This error is that you can't connect to http://ftp.belnet.be/ for the dries repo. Either remark out this repo, or pick another dries repo mirror and add to your repo file for dries. http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/mirrors.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20060226/aa6aac99/attachment.bin
