yum rhn timeout error

["Peter Kekenes-Huskey" <huskeypm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Message

Hi

I'm trying to do a package update using yum for my RHEL5 system (still have an active subscription).  In a nutshell, the program hangs indefinitely when it attempts to download primary.xml.gz.  I've tried disabling my firewalls to no avail.  I can ftp to the repository at ftp.redhat.com.  Has anyone encountered this issue?  I've copied the output below and included my .repo info:

 

[root@nietzsche huskeypm]# yum install kernel-devel xorg-x11-server-sdk pkgconf
ig
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
rhel-i386-client-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz              0% |                         | 8.0 kB    03:43 ETA

...

Error: failed to retrieve repodata/primary.xml.gz from rhel-i386-client-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

[rhel-debuginfo]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/$releasever/en/os/$base
arch/Debuginfo/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

 

thanks!

 

Peter Michael Kekenes-Huskey

California Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry

PhD Student

 

huskeypm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://pkh.caltech.edu

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