<div dir="ltr">Earlier this week I attempted a 'yum update' on one of my Fedora 9 systems and it failed. I have two Fedora 9 systems behind my firewall and the firewall machine itself runs an earlier version of Fedora communicating with the net via DSL. The yum failure was because I could not download glibc-common-2.8-8.i386 (22386485 bytes). I got the following error messages: Downloading Packages: <a href="http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a>: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> Trying other mirror. (1/3): glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm | 11 MB 00:00 <a href="http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a>: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/3): glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm | 11 MB 00:00 <a href="http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a>: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/3): glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm | 11 MB 00:00 <a href="http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a>: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. <a href="ftp://fedora.bu.edu/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">ftp://fedora.bu.edu/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a>: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror. (1/3): glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm | 11 MB 00:00 <a href="http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a>: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/3): glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm | 11 MB 00:00 <a href="http://archive.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">http://archive.linux.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a>: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. ETC. So, after a couple of attempts ('yum clean all; yum update', etc.), I attempted to update my other Fedora 9 system - same problem. I increased the yum timeout in yum.conf - same problem. So, I googled about and found this link: <a href="http://www.linux-faqs.com/archive/redhat/fedora-list/2005-August/msg04665.html">http://www.linux-faqs.com/archive/redhat/fedora-list/2005-August/msg04665.html</a> This is exactly the problem I am currently facing. I thus tried the various suggestions in the link's email trail. wget: hung after a couple of MBytes - about 6%. curl -C - -v --retry 10 --remote-time --remote-name --location hangs at 6% or sometimes after repeated attempts switching mirrors it would hang at 52%. command-line ftp client: <a href="ftp://ftp.software.umn.edu/linux/fedora/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">ftp://ftp.software.umn.edu/linux/fedora/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a> <a href="ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a> hang after a couple of MBytes. firefox ftp: hangs at 6% and sometimes at 52% firefox http: hangs at 6% and sometimes at 52% rsync: rsync -av or rsync -azv rsync://<a href="http://rsync.mirrorservice.org:873/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm">rsync.mirrorservice.org:873/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386/glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm</a> /tmp nothing seemed to happen At this point I tried some of the above download mechanisms directly on my firewall machine - who knows... Anyway, none of those tried on the firewall worked either. So, I assumed something was wrong with my firewall machine, so I re-installed Fedora on it, upgrading from an earlier version of Fedora to a later version (complete re-install) but not Fedora 9. After the new install, still same problem. But I did notice that on the firewall when I did a 'yum update' it tried a number of mirror machines attempting to download its update version of the glib-common rpm, but if finally succeeded. Its version of the glib-common rpm is about 5 MB smaller than the current Fedora 9 version. I also tried to download files larger than the glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm from the mirrors, for example R-2.7.1-1.fc9.i386.rpm which is 26MB. Well, this downloads just fine. During all my attempts, from the firewall machine bouncing between mirrors using 'curl' I did get one download of the glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm file but because it took many invocations of 'curl' I am not sure I trust it to be all there. Its the correct number of bytes but I don't trust the content of the file so I am certainly not going to update any machines with it until I can verify the files content. So, my questions: Why can I not download the glibc-common file? Does my ISP have an issue? What could possibly be stopping the download when the file name is glibc-common? The time it happened as documented by the above link was there a solution? Does yum have a sha1 checksum that I can check against the one glibc-common-2.8-8.i386.rpm file that I did get so that I can see if its ok? If not, can someone post such a checksum for me? Thanks. Richard </div>