Re: 'yum update' error - Cannot retrieve repository metadata

Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:52:03 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Andrew Wheal wrote:

I ran 'urlgrabber 
http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/5/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml' and got 
the output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/urlgrabber", line 124, in ?
  main()
File "/usr/bin/urlgrabber", line 120, in main
  filename = urlgrab(url,filename=file,**kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 602, in 
urlgrab
  return default_grabber.urlgrab(url, filename, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 934, in 
urlgrab
  return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 852, in 
_retry
  r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 920, in 
retryfunc
  fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1008, in 
__init__
  self._do_open()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1091, in 
_do_open
  fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1220, in 
_make_request
  raise URLGrabError(4, _('IOError: %s') % (e, ))
urlgrabber.grabber.URLGrabError: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 
'Connection timed out')>

What does this exactly mean?

are you using a proxy? Maybe a transparent one?

-sv

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