[Yum] Yum fails spectacularly a lot - and I miss it.

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Tue Dec 12 14:33:11 UTC 2006 

are you behind a proxy?  The version of yum in Centos 4.4 can handle a 
proxy fine.  You may have to manually upgrade yum on the FC4 machine to 
the latest version that can handle proxies.

Aaron Hawryluk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve been browsing the mailing list and newsgroups to no effect, so 
> apologies in advance if this problem has been described and solved before.
> 
>  
> 
> I have a problem connecting to yum from both Linux machines in my office 
> – one CentOS 4.4 box and a Fedora Core 4 machine. Up2date works fine on 
> the CentOS box.
> 
> The CentOS box does this:
> 
>  
> 
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 
> Setting up Package Sacks
> 
> Excluding Incompatible Archs
> 
> Finished
> 
> Reading Local RPMDB
> 
> Parsing package install arguments
> 
> No other yumex installed, adding to list for potential install
> 
> reduced installs :
> 
>    yumex.noarch 0:1.0.2-1.0.c4
> 
> Resolving Dependencies
> 
> 1165869483.49
> 
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> 
> Member: yumex.noarch 0-1.0.2-1.0.c4 - u
> 
> ---> Downloading header for yumex to pack into transaction set.
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch 100% |=========================| 359 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> http://mirrors.csumb.edu/centos/4.4/extras/i386/RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch 100% |=========================| 359 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/4.4/extras/i386/RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch 100% |=========================| 359 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> http://ftp.telus.net/pub/centos/4.4/extras/i386/RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch 100% |=========================| 359 kB    
> 00:03    
> 
> http://centos.westmancom.com/4.4/extras/i386/RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch 100% |=========================| 359 kB    
> 00:02    
> 
> http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4.4/extras/i386/RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> 
>  
> 
> ...and so on until it exhausts all mirrors.
> 
>  
> 
> The fedora box does this:
> 
>  
> 
> Setting up Install Process
> 
> Setting up repositories
> 
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 
> Parsing package install arguments
> 
> Resolving Dependencies
> 
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> 
> ---> Downloading header for yumex to pack into transaction set.
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:08    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:02    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:02    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:03    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:02    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:02    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:10    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:08    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:07    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:01    
> 
> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarc 100% |=========================| 361 kB    
> 00:03    
> 
> Error: failure: yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc4.noarch.rpm from extras: [Errno 256] 
> No more mirrors to try.
> 
>  
> 
> I assume these are similar errors – I checked the mailing lists and 
> whatever I could dig up on google and tried the proxy route – no joy, no 
> love. According to my sysadmin there is no proxy on this network, and 
> HIS Fedora Core 4 box does a yum update fine.  Can anyone tell me a) how 
> I can get more detailed error information (yes, I have tried –e 10 and 
> –d 10, they don’t actually tell me anything about the connection, just 
> high-level stuff) and b)Whether there is any workaround for these 
> issues. I have tried going the route of hard-coded ftp-only repos in the 
> CentOS box and it responds with this:
> 
>  
> 
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> 
> Member: yumex.noarch 0-1.0.2-1.0.c4 - u
> 
> ---> Downloading header for yumex to pack into transaction set.
> 
> ftp://centos.westmancom.com/4.4/extras/i386/RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] [Errno ftp error] 500 Unknown command.
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> ftp://ftp.telus.net/pub/centos/4.4/extras/i386/RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] [Errno ftp error] 500 Unknown command.
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> ftp://centos.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/centos/4.4/extras/i386/RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] [Errno ftp error] 500 Unknown command.
> 
> Trying other mirror.
> 
> Error: failure: RPMS/yumex-1.0.2-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm from extras: [Errno 
> 256] No more mirrors to try.
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone?  Any ideas?
> 
>  
> 
> --Aaron Hawryluk
> 
> Webmaster, The Calgary Sun
> 
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