[Yum] yum client error (proxy problem?)

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:59, Kraszewski, Marcin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just installed Fedora Core 1 and would like to check for updates using
> yum. I edited /etc/yum.conf to look like this:
> 
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=fedora-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> retries=10
> 
> [fedora-us-1]
> name=Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os
>  http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os
>  http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os
> 
> [fedora-us-1-updates]
> name=Fedora Core 1 updates -- Fedora US mirror
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates
>  http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates
>  http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates
> 
> [fedora-us-1-stable]
> name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
>  http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
>  http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
> 
> When I try running 'yum info', I get the following output:
> 
> [root at caotsndc500 root]# yum info
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os/headers/
> header.info
>   Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os/headers/head
> er.info
>   Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file
> http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os/headers/
> header.info
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
> 
> I am behind a proxy, so I created http_proxy variable. When I use just the
> "proxy_name:port#", I get the above error. I checked the archives and found
> a way to add userID and password, but when I tried providing user:password
> in that variable, I got an error about an invalid proxy port number. My
> proxy userID contains an '@' character, I think that causes the port number
> error. Is there a way to make yum client work on my network? TIA.
> 

pull down the latest yum daily from:
http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/2.0/daily/

then set keepalive=0
under [main] in your yum.conf

tell me if it fixes the problem.

thanks
-sv