HTTP error 416 with google-chrome and virtualbox repos

[Andre Costa]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 21:22, Andre Costa <blueser at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 17:46, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 09:25 -0300, Andre Costa wrote:
>> > HTTP error 416
>>
>> 416 - Requested Range Not Satisfiable
>> A server usually returns a response with 416-status code if a request
>> included a Range request-header field, and none of the range-specifier
>> values in this field overlap the current extent of the selected
>> resource, and the request did not include an If-Range request-header
>> field. For example if the resource is an image file and has 1000 bytes,
>> and the Range requested is 500-1500, then it cannot be satisfied.
>>
>
> Pretty weird, isn't it? This was the first time I heard about Error 416.
>
> At least somene else (another Tim BTW ;-)) is also experiencing this:
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-linux-repositories-help-basics/browse_thread/thread/69265baf769d402a
>
>
>> It sounds like you've got a different primary.xml.gz file cached than
>> the server is serving, and you're trying to merge them together (which
>> can only work when resuming downloading the exact same file) instead of
>> replace your one with theirs.  Trying "yum clean metadata" might clear
>> up the snag.
>>
>
> Yeah, I had tried cleaning yum's metadata, but it still chokes the same
> way. This is really weird, and has been going on for a couple of days
> already. AFAIK it only occurs for these two repos.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andre
>

Found something on Bugzilla: it might be realted to bug 577497:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577497

Andre
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