yum is not working

[Bob Chiodini]

yufan wrote:

> could someone tell me what wrong is with this:
>
> [root at localhost yufan]# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> http://linux.admin.uillinois.edu/pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml 
> <http://linux.admin.uillinois.edu/pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml>: 
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 403: Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:48:22 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
> Content-Length: 353
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> Trying other mirror.
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 357 kB    00:50
> http://ftp.lug.ro/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 354 kB    00:14
> http://fedora.ngi.it/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 
> -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
> Connection: Keep-Alive
> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 02:49:09 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> Trying other mirror.
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 355 kB    00:15
> http://fedora.secsup.org/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 357 kB    00:21
> http://ftp.udl.es/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 357 kB    00:27
> http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz 
> <http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz>: 
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 355 kB    00:20
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 357 kB    00:16
> http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 248 kB    00:08
>
> it keeps printing all kinds of error messages and never start to 
> update.what's wrong?

Try yum clean all then yum update.

Bob...