On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of > > mirrors. I > > don't use "a" mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package. > > That > > retrieves the list of mirrors and tries one (at random it seems). The > > checksum fails, it goes off to the next and so on. It seems to do > > this > > about ten times and then stops. Or maybe it was out of mirrors. One > > time > > none of them succeeded the checksum check, usually it takes 4, 5 or 6 > > tries > > before I get a valid checksum. > > I also frequently see checksum errors with a similar setup, but seldom > more than one or two failures. I also use the fastestmirror plugin > which may have some effect on the results. No proxy is involved and > results are similar at home and at work. We see it too. My assumption is that it has to do with slow mirror sync somehow. It seems a bunch of mirrors typically sit on a old or new version that does not work with the local data (previously pulled from another mirror). My typical fix is to ignore it (either it finds a mirror eventually that's compatible or I try again later...). /Peter > Phil
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