[Yum] BUG REPORT:from fedoraforum
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jun 22 14:51:46 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:23 -0400, gary wrote:
> Yum,
>
> An imporatant BUG has appeared in yum version 2.3.2 that did not appear in
> previous versions.... Yum is unusable to a huge number of people.... This
> error appears constantly when trying to do an update:
>
> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
>
> a fedoraforum member found that if he places the following line in his
> yum.conf it goes away:
>
> proxy=http://192.168.0.1:87
>
> We are sure it is a yum problem, because all our other internet programs, and
> browsers work just fine without this time out/socket error.... And all
> previous version of yum worked just fine.... This BUG has just been written
> in the new version....
>
If you have a bug, or if a series of people have a bug with yum in
fedora - please file a bug in red hat's bugzilla.
That's the best way to track these items.
thanks,
-sv
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