glibc-common ?

[Paul Howarth]

Zorg wrote:
> Le Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:09:53 +0930
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> a écrit:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:10 +0200, Zorg wrote:
>>
>>>It fails with th following messages (just an extract):
>>>
>>>(1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================|    0 B
>>>00:06
>>>http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora-core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm:
>>>[Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
>>>Trying other mirror.
>>
>>I had that until I followed some advice about modifying
>>the /etc/yum.conf file, thus:  add the following line in the list of
>>[main] options:
>>
>>timeout=16
>>
>>I find no mention of "timeout" as an option in the man file, but it did
>>the trick.
> 
> 
> Added this into yum.conf, and no changes...
> Tried another time wget and gives me the following:
> "
> wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
> --16:15:26-- 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
>            => `glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm'
> Résolution de download.fedora.redhat.com... 209.132.176.221,66.187.224.20, 209.132.176.20, ...
> Connexion vers download.fedora.redhat.com[209.132.176.221]:80...connecté.requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse...200 OK
> Longueur: 15,093,117 [application/x-rpm]
> 
> 43% [===============>                     ] 6,538,976     52.89K/s    ETA 02:54
> "
> 
> Interrupted by myself after a long waiting (about 20mn of inactivity)...
> 
> While listing the http directory with Firefox, I got:
> "
> [ ]	glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm 	30-May-2005 17:16 	 14M
> "
> 
> I have enought disk space (no less than 8GB free on each partition)
> 
> Done a wget on gimp-help-2-0.1.0.71.noarch.rpm which is 14M too whithout problems...
> 
> This computer is a gateway. 
> I've tried on another computer (RedHat 9 with kernel 2.6.9) which is on the internal network, and got the same problem, but wget blocks at 6,540,408.
> 
> Another try on my gateway with wget blocks at 6,536,240 (not the same as above)
> 
> Any idea???

Try:

$ curl --retry 20 --remote-time --remote-name --location \
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm

Paul.