[Yum] Error using yum

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Ashwini Dhiman wrote:

>>> Here's the entire error log for the update command
>>>
>>> http://fpaste.org/paste/6307
>>
>> Is your web browser set up to use a proxy ?
>>
>> That might be why it can get to various mirros, but yum cant.
>
> Yes, the browser is set to use a proxy. Even the environment variable
> http_proxy uses the same proxy setting as the browser.
>
>>
>> try a wget directly like:
>> wget
>> http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/10/i386/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2
>> as an example.
>
> The wget worked perfectly fine. It downloaded the bz2 package at
> fairly nice speed.
>

run
urlgrabber \
http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Fedora/updates/10/i386/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2

as root.

-sv