up2date generating an error when trying to install lynx

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 18:27, Adrian Likins wrote:

> >   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py", line 96,
> > in getHeader
> >     hdrBuf = fh.read()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 156, in read
> >     self._read(readsize)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 210, in _read
> >     self._read_eof()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 245, in _read_eof
> >     raise ValueError, "CRC check failed"
> > ValueError: CRC check failed
> > 
> 
> 	Well, thats a new one. Havent seen it before but
> it definately looks like you got a corrupted header downloaded
> and it blew up in gzip. 
> 
> 	Yay, more exceptions to catch! ;->

I should pay more attention to those tracebacks. I had this one too,
in addition to the one in bz 113063 quite a lot the last few days.

I've been putting it down to overloaded servers, but even after
switching to mirrors, it still dying horribly. For updates right now
I've resorted to wget -c and installing them with rpm manually.
Which is also suffering from timeouts, but it reconnects, and does
the right thing afterwards at least.

FWIW, yum(1) screws up too (albeit in different ways).

	Dave