On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 16:10 -0600, Lorin Pino wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > >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 > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Yum mailing list > >Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > > > > I tried removing the dries repo, and then got the same error for dags. > On trying a different mirror for dries, I got the error much faster. > [root@localhost lorin]# yum update yum > Setting up Update Process > Setting up repositories > http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/dries/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found > Trying other mirror. > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dries > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dries: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. > Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dries: [Errno 256] No more > mirrors to try. > > I removed dags and dries, and nothing worked with the centos repos at > all, so I put in dags without dries and got the same thing: > [root@localhost lorin]# yum update yum > Setting up Update Process > Setting up repositories > dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > Reading repository metadata in from local files > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 176 kB 00:41 > http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno > 4] Socket Error: timed out > Trying other mirror. > Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dag: [Errno 256] No more > mirrors to try. > > 1) Can you put more than one mirror in the file and have it go from one > to the next, if it times out on the first? > 2) I am on dial-up service. Is this too slow to download this xml.gz > file before the program times out? > If so, is there a way to extend the time limit? > I assume from the progress percentage when it times out that this file > is a meg, or slightly more, so this will take a few minutes to get on my > connection, but the download is happening right up to the point when it > times out (about 15-20 seconds). Then the program shuts down. > So, any more suggestions? Try looking through the yum.conf man page. There is a 'timeout' setting you can put in /etc/yum.conf. Not sure if that's what you want or need but worth a try. i.e. timeout=N # N being a number in secs. Bob -- Bob Kashani GARNOME Project http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome
