[Yum] FC4 - yum update issues ...

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jun 21 05:57:42 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 07:44 +0200, C.Lee Taylor wrote:
> Greetings ...
> 
> 	I'm not sure if this is a ftp nat weirdness issue that I have seen be 
> discuss of late, but I'm running FC4-64 and have run into some really 
> weird problems.
> 
> 	Been doing yum installs and update and it seems to get to about 1% of 
> the download and falls over.  It has done this on two different boxes, 
> mainly to Fedore Extras from what I have seen.
> 
> 	I don't think it's the hardware or my internet connection, because my 
> FC3-32/64 systems have not had this problem.  Plus I have used wget to 
> download the rest of the rpms that is has failed, rerun yum and it 
> installs fine.
> 
> 	I would hate to say this, but could this be a new yum issue? I hope 
> this helps ...

This is the first report like this one I've heard.

When you say "falls over" do you mean it hangs or do you mean it exits
with a traceback?

Get a tcpdump and strace of what's happening when it occurs, that will
help.

-sv





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