[Yum] Yum 2.0.5 flakiness

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Mar 6 15:40:19 UTC 2004


> The error, at first glance, looks like a generic:
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
> 
> But when you set DEBUG=1 in urlgrabber.py, it turns out that the error
> is really:
> EXCEPTION: [Errno 7] HTTP Error (BadStatusLine):
> for the first try, and then CannotSendRequest for all subsequent tries.
> 
> This doesn't make sense because a wget -S for the exact same url gives
> me HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> 
> Strangely, header.info never gives that error.  This makes me think
> there's a bug in the keepalive handler.  I've got keepalive=0 in my
> yum.conf but I'm wondering if it's not working quite right.


What mirrors are you using?
Chances are you're going in and out of a mirror being overloaded
dependent on when you run it, try a lighter loaded mirror.

What makes you think keepalive is failing here?

-sv





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