local koji, yum FTP errors randomly on F11

[Mike McLean]

On 03/19/2010 06:20 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> When I send builds to my local koji, I sometimes get failures just
> because yum failed to download the initial build root. I'll get messages
> like this:
>
> ftp://localhost/pub/fedora/updates/12/x86_64/unzip-5.52-12.fc12.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 500 OOPS: child died

This is happening at the yum level, so you should be able to replicate 
outside of koji (or indeed outside of mock).

The error itself looks like it may originate on your ftp server. Have 
you checked those logs?

How hard are you hitting this box?