On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 19:24 +0100, Andrew Wheal wrote: > After a fresh install of CentOS 5.3, 'yum update' has been been > failing to run. I have posted this problem on the CentOS forums, > which can be found at this link: > > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22178 > > The people on that forum have been very helpful so far but have run > out of ideas why it is not working. One member suggested that I come > here to see if anyone is able to help. > > When I run 'yum update' now the output is as follows: > > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > Determining fastest mirrors > http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/5/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: > [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> > Trying other mirror. > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for > repository: base. Please verify its path and try again > > Any help with this problem would be much appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum I actually joined this list trying to find an answer very similar symptoms. It looked like things were working - but it took 13 minutes to download the Fedora repo repomd.xml file. Was going to take an estimate 15 thousand hours to download the primary_sqlite database. Uh - my connection's bad, but not that bad... It turns out that I forgot to put a "k" behind my bandwidth argument in my yum.conf. So, my connection was 1024 times slower than I expected, but ironically, 100% functionally accurate for what I'd told it to do... DOH! Broken: throttle=60% bandwidth=12.5 Correct: throttle=60% bandwidth=12.5k You can also run a tcpdump to make sure traffic is actually passing to/from your computer when you do the yum update. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
