Re: Info: if your yum fails ... server maintenance

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 30.06.2005 schrieb beartooth um 2:10:
>  On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:42:01 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
>  
>  > Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>  [....]
>  >>selection page is actually affected and out of order.
>  >>
>  >>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc4
>  >[...]. Please come back in a few hours
>  [...]
>  > Thanks Alexander,
>  > 
>  > I fiddled around with the repo lists for quite some time before reading 
>  > your message. I evenually went to a direct URL instead of the mirror 
>  > approach.
>  
>  Would somebody please explain to the technically challenged how to do that?  
Last night (~ 02:00 UTC) there was a maintenance with the Red Hat server
which serves besides other things the mirror selection lists, used by
yum and up2date to automatically choose a mirror for getting package
information and the packages itself. That caused yum to fail
temporarily.

>  My upgrades from FC2 and Fc3 went fine; I did FC1, hit exactly that
> error,
>  and have been retrying ever since, for almost 24 hours.
>  
>  Fwiw, I still have an /etc/yum.conf from FC1. 
>  
>  Up2date also fails.
>  
>  Is the server really still out?? 
No, test it yourself by accessing the URL with your browser.

>  Or is something else wrong on my end? 
Must be something with your setup.

>  Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist 
Alexander


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