Kernel Upgrade Help needed!

[William Hooper]

Chadley Wilson said:
> On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 20:25, William Hooper wrote:
>> Chadley Wilson said:
>> >> > > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272
>> >> > >
>> >
>> >> Here is the output for that last effort I made
>> >> > >
>> >> [root at chadlin xmmsplugins]# export http_proxy=000.000.000.000:80
>> >> [replace actual IP with zeros]
>> >> [root at chadlin xmmsplugins]# export proxy_user=chadley
>> >> [root at chadlin xmmsplugins]# export proxy_passwd=xxxxxx
>> >> [root at chadlin xmmsplugins]# up2date -u
>> >>
>> >> Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...
>> >>
>> >> Fetching
>> >> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
>> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>> This is the exact trace from comment 28 in the bug report.  I suggest:
>>
>> a) Configure up2date to use a mirror.
>> b) Use "export http_proxy=http://chadley:xxxxxx000.000.000.000:80"

Man, I need to proof-read better with this laptop keyboard.

export http_proxy=http://chadley:xxxxxx@196.25.100.20:80

Note the "@" sign between the password and proxy address.

> Did that and added
> export proxy_passwd=xxxxx
> and now get this
>
>> [root at chadlin qt]# yum list updates
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file
> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (InvalidURL): nonnumeric port: '196.25.100.20:80'
> [root at chadlin qt]#
>
> Could this be an easy fix?

At least it is trying to use the proxy.  You still need configure up2date
to use a mirror, though.

-- 
William Hooper