On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 21:28 -0800, Steve Schilt wrote: > Hello, > > I installed CentOS 3.8 this week and would like to run a 'yum update' > but always get an error that looks like this: > > OTHELLO_root /root# yum update > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: CentOS-3 - Addons > retrygrab() failed for: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/addons/i386/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/addons/i386/headers/header.info > [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error > > > The yum.conf I am using is the default that is shipped with the > distro. I have formerly run CentOS 4.4 and Fedora 4 but did not > encounter this problem. Any suggestions? > First thing you might want to do is ask on the centos users' mailing list. next thing is take the url up there: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/addons/i386/headers/header.info and paste it into a web browser on the same machine. If you can't get to the url from your webbrowser then that's what is wrong. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
