[Yum] retrygrab() failed ...

Garrick Staples garrick at usc.edu
Fri Jan 9 17:38:53 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:47:58AM -0500, David Relson alleged:
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:23:09 -0500
> seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:19, David Relson wrote:
> 
> ...[snip]...
> 
> > > Does this indicate a problem in yum, my configuration, or at the
> > > mirror?
> > 
> > I'd guess either:
> > 1. repository
> > or
> > 2. someone put a transparent proxy up w/o telling you and it's timing
> > out keepalives quickly.
> > 
> > try 1 first.
> > 
> > -sv
> 
> I think I've found the solution!  I changed from
> 
>    baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/...
> 
> to:
>  
>    baseurl=ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/...
> 
> and yum is happily downloading packages.

I think we can find a better solution.  Using ftp means that yum will fail
every now and then because the server has a max number of users.  Using http
generally works better much better for automated things like yum cronjobs.  But
if http://mirrors.usc.edu isn't working for you, then I'd like to know.

Can you successfully download that .hdr with wget or another http client?
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/updates/9.2/i586/headers/XFree86-server-0-4.3-24.1.92mdk.i586.hdr'
Can you visit http://mirrors.usc.edu in a web browser?

-- 
Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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