up2date generating an error when trying to install lynx

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jan 16 19:00:05 UTC 2004


> I should pay more attention to those tracebacks. I had this one too,
> in addition to the one in bz 113063 quite a lot the last few days.
> 
> I've been putting it down to overloaded servers, but even after
> switching to mirrors, it still dying horribly. For updates right now
> I've resorted to wget -c and installing them with rpm manually.
> Which is also suffering from timeouts, but it reconnects, and does
> the right thing afterwards at least.
> 
> FWIW, yum(1) screws up too (albeit in different ways).

it does? I thought I've caught most of the corrupted header tracebacks.

care to share the errors?

-sv






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