I attempted to limit my search to Fedora Core 3 and updates using: the search string "Core 3" AND update. Nonetheless, the first item in the list was for Fedora Core 1 ...
There are just too many hits that are seemingly randomly ordered by date to be certain what I am encountering has not been previously answered.
So forgive me if this is repetitious.
The install went fairly well on an older IBM laptop that previously "worked" with Mandrake 9.1 Pro. After connecting to the Internet I began to be bothered by the notice indicating I should update the Fedora Core 3 installation. Despite all variations, no matter combination and no matter how small the list of selected packages, at the end of the load I receive a message of failing to find a critical package. It is of the form:
"Error while attempting to retrieve the package [insert the name selected] ... The message was:
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http: [gives what appear to be reasonable web site locations] Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found"
I tried to update emacs alone, bash, Firefox as well as part of the kernel and in every case I ran into this form of failure. I have heard too often about the ability to update Fedora to not think something I am doing is at fault. What dumb thing am I doing that is causing me this grief?
TIA
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Herschel wrote:
"Error while attempting to retrieve the package [insert the name selected] ... The message was:
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http: [gives what appear to be reasonable web site locations] Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found"
Are you using YUM? If not, try as root:
# yum update
Even if this fails to complete all the way, after a couple of runs it should have managed to pull all the new packages into the local cache. Once that's done, it will complete the update as usual.
This is of course assuming that it's not always stopping due to a single package that it can't seem to locate ..
Once the update is complete, you should issue (as root)
# yum clean packages
To free up the space taken up by the downloaded packes in cache.
I tried to update emacs alone, bash, Firefox as well as part of the kernel and in every case I ran into this form of failure. I have heard too often about the ability to update Fedora to not think something I am doing is at fault. What dumb thing am I doing that is causing me this grief?
HTH
TIA
M
Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
Herschel wrote:
"Error while attempting to retrieve the package [insert the name selected] ... The message was:
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http: [gives what appear to be reasonable web site locations] Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found"
Are you using YUM? If not, try as root:
# yum update
No, so far just using the auto update, which seemed very similar to my experience on Mandrake - except it has now seemed to fail consistently for me for two days running.
I am going to search for the syntax to attempt a small update on a single package to see if that works first.
Even if this fails to complete all the way, after a couple of runs it should have managed to pull all the new packages into the local cache. Once that's done, it will complete the update as usual.
[Please expain, what you mean by completing the update "as usual", is this a make install step?]
This may have happened on the kernel, because I saw a message that somehow the kernel was up to date. The kernel utilities fail saying it cannot find selinux-policy-targeted-1.17... Then I moved on to try single packages.
This is of course assuming that it's not always stopping due to a single package that it can't seem to locate ..
It seems to be an appropriate single package for the application I am trying to update. That does not seem to be a precise match to your possible worry.
Once the update is complete, you should issue (as root)
# yum clean packages
To free up the space taken up by the downloaded packes in cache.
I tried to update emacs alone, bash, Firefox as well as part of the kernel and in every case I ran into this form of failure. I have heard too often about the ability to update Fedora to not think something I am doing is at fault. What dumb thing am I doing that is causing me this grief?
HTH
Well, if that's all I have to do - it should help. I will let you know, thanks!!
TIA
M
Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
Herschel wrote:
"Error while attempting to retrieve the package [insert the name selected] ... The message was:
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http: [gives what appear to be reasonable web site locations] Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found"
Are you using YUM? If not, try as root:
# yum update
Tried the single update with dubious syntax, which kept getting an error on a small file saying meta data did not match the md sum. Let this run much too long prior to aborting it.
Then did the yum update, and while it seemed to terminate prematurely, I rebooted and the new kernel is present. Forgot to mention I reran the command to redo the update, but I got the message that nothing remained to be updated.
Yes your advice really helped!! Thank you Mostafa. Now to go back and clean.
Even if this fails to complete all the way, after a couple of runs it should have managed to pull all the new packages into the local cache. Once that's done, it will complete the update as usual.
This is of course assuming that it's not always stopping due to a single package that it can't seem to locate ..
Once the update is complete, you should issue (as root)
# yum clean packages
To free up the space taken up by the downloaded packes in cache.
I tried to update emacs alone, bash, Firefox as well as part of the kernel and in every case I ran into this form of failure. I have heard too often about the ability to update Fedora to not think something I am doing is at fault. What dumb thing am I doing that is causing me this grief?
HTH
TIA
M
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