On 06/30/2011 11:40 AM ken wrote:
> On 06/30/2011 11:21 AM John Doe wrote:
>> From: ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> So I tried using wget to download RPMs from a few mirrors. I was able
>>> to successfully one whose size is about 5.5M, but the others all stop
>>> downloading around 1M. Then I tried ftp... same deal. This might be
>>> the reason for the "socket error" in yum.
>> When you say "stop downloading", what do you mean?
>> Clean stop? Network error message? Filesystem?
>> Maybe you could try to wget to /dev/null and see if it goes further?
>> Or try to strace a wget to see what happens...
>>
>> JD
>
> Sorry, I should have been clearer. What happens is that the download
> simply hangs. Doing ftp I turn on the 'hash' option so the ftp server
> prints a # for every 1k (or something?). It'll print a half a screen
> full of #s then stop; and I won't get the "ftp>" prompt back, even
> should I wait a half hour for it.
>
> Using wget it's pretty much the same idea. On the left of the display
> it'll show something like this:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> # wget
> http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/CentOS/5.6/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-common-2.5-58.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
> --2011-06-30 11:35:44--
> http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/CentOS/5.6/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-common-2.5-58.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
> Resolving ftp.linux.ncsu.edu... 152.1.2.172
> Connecting to ftp.linux.ncsu.edu|152.1.2.172|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 17244521 (16M) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: `glibc-common-2.5-58.el5_6.4.i386.rpm'
>
> 5% [=> ] 1,029,216 --.-K/s eta 23m 10s
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> and just freeze there... except the right two numbers (following "eta")
> will continue to climb higher... it stays at "5%" and "1,029,216"
> doesn't change, and there's no activity between those two numbers. In
> short, the download just stops or freezes.
>
One more thing: To exit from the wget above, I have to do a Ctrl-C.
Then I get this error code:
# echo $?
130
It might just mean "user hit Ctrl-C", I don't know, haven't tried to
look it up yet.
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