Problem with F17 yum requesting old repodata?

[Darton Williams]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:04:43 -0600
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> > Posting here, mainly because I'm not really sure where else to ask...
> >
> > I run a Fedora mirror (mirror.hiwaay.net).  I noticed that I have been
> > seeing a significantly higher HTTP request rate than normal.  My
> > mirror usually sees a couple of hundred requests per minute, but it
> > has been running a steady 1500 requests per minute for most of
> > today.  It hit 4000 requests per minute around mid-day Wednesday (US
> > Central time).
> >
> > I poked through the logs, and I see lots of requests for the file:
> >
> >
> /pub/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/34881e74623de1754bf0e12f01884bea615fdcee05eded189f22d41bf9d4260b-other.sqlite.bz2
> >
> > That file no longer exists; it was on my mirror from 21:12 Monday to
> > 22:17 Tuesday.
> >
> > I see the same IP requesting that file (and getting a 404 error) a
> > dozen times in less than a minute.  I'm guessing there's either a yum
> > bug or a broken repo push that is:
> >
> > - causing yum to try to fetch an out-of-date repodata file
> > - causing it to try over and over again rapidly
> >
> > This is accounting for about a third of all requests to my mirror
> > right now.
>
> Strange. Could be the previous days updates push, but then it should be
> getting new repodata/seeing the change from the metalink.
>
> It should also be normally trying multiple mirrors, not a bunch of
> times to the same one. :(
>
> Is it all the same IP? Perhaps a horribly misconfigured machine...
>
> kevin
>
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I get this issue on my F16/F17 machines if I forget to run "yum clean"
before "yum update" - a lot of 404s. This only occurs on a less-frequent
than default update schedule, such as bimonthly.

Darton
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