[Yum] Yum times out: Socket error 4, and 256

[Bob Kashani]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 16:10 -0600, Lorin Pino wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 07:30 -0600, Lorin Pino wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I am fairly new to linux, and brand new to yum (switching from Suse to 
> >>CentOS).  I have been reading tutorials, and centos forum discussions, 
> >>but I can't get yum to work:
> >>[root at localhost home]# yum check-update
> >>Setting up repositories
> >>dries                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> >>dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> >>jpackage-fc               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> >>update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> >>jpackage-generic          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> >>base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> >>jpackage-rhel             100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> >>contrib                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> >>centosplus                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> >>addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> >>extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> >>Reading repository metadata in from local files
> >>primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 160 kB    00:38
> >>http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/redhat/el4/en/i386/dries/RPMS/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> >>[Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
> >>Trying other mirror.
> >>Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dries: [Errno 256] No more 
> >>mirrors to try.
> >>
> >>I have the keys installed.  I have tried using the base urls in the 
> >>centos-base.repos, but when the computer is "Reading repository metadata 
> >>in from local files
> >>primary.xml.gz" it times out after about 15 seconds.  There is constant 
> >>progress on the status bar, but it only gets 20%, or so, before timing 
> >>out, and delivering the errors.  I am assuming there is a problem with 
> >>my settings, but I don't know what to do from here.  Any suggestions?
> >>TIA
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >This error is that you can't connect to http://ftp.belnet.be/ for the
> >dries repo.
> >
> >Either remark out this repo, or pick another dries repo mirror and add
> >to your repo file for dries.
> >
> >http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/mirrors.html
> >  
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Yum mailing list
> >Yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu
> >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
> >  
> >
> I tried removing the dries repo, and then got the same error for dags. 
> On trying a different mirror for dries, I got the error much faster.
> [root at localhost lorin]# yum update yum
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/dries/repodata/repomd.xml: 
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dries
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dries: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dries: [Errno 256] No more 
> mirrors to try.
> 
> I removed dags and dries, and nothing worked with the centos repos at 
> all, so I put in dags without dries and got the same thing:
> [root at localhost lorin]# yum update yum
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 176 kB    00:41
> http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 
> 4] Socket Error: timed out
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dag: [Errno 256] No more 
> mirrors to try.
> 
> 1) Can you put more than one mirror in the file and have it go from one 
> to the next, if it times out on the first?
> 2) I am on dial-up service.  Is this too slow to download this xml.gz 
> file before the program times out?
>     If so, is there a way to extend the time limit?
> I assume from the progress percentage when it times out that this file 
> is a meg, or slightly more, so this will take a few minutes to get on my 
> connection, but the download is happening right up to the point when it 
> times out (about 15-20 seconds).  Then the program shuts down.
> So, any more suggestions?

Try looking through the yum.conf man page. There is a 'timeout' setting
you can put in /etc/yum.conf. Not sure if that's what you want or need
but worth a try. i.e. timeout=N  # N being a number in secs.

Bob

-- 
Bob Kashani
GARNOME Project
http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome