yum stuck trying to connect to Stanford

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 28 17:25:20 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:13 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> When I do a 'yum upgrade' (on F9), I get the attached result.
> I looks like it's trying to connect to the Stanford network.
> And indeed yesterday I was at Stanford with my laptop, and
> it did try to connect to Stanford's wireless network, which is
> one of those that requires a code/logon, which I don't have.
> 
> But now I'm home again, and I still get this weird error.
> This is even after re-booting twice, stopping NetworkManager,
> and manually bringing up eth0, which I connecting through just fine.
> 
> How do I "unstick" yum?

run:
   yum clean expire-cache

see if that fixes it up for you.

-sv





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