yum times out frequently - socket timeout value too low?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Jun 24 13:05:41 UTC 2005


On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:45:24PM +0800, Msquared wrote:
> > There's an undocumented "timeout" option -- put "timeout=40" in
> > /etc/yum.conf. (Or try even higher.)
> > Please let me know if this helps.
> That certainly helps, thanks.  I'll crank it up a little higher, though,
> as on our ssslllooowww link it still bails sometimes.

Good to know.

> Another problem I have discovered is that hitting ^C doesn't always cancel
> the operation.  Sometimes it just drops the connection on that server and
> causes it to try the next server.  Then this happens, it appears to be
> impossible to actually kill the yum session with anything short of closing
> the terminal window that is running the yum instance.

Yeah, this is a known yum "feature". (Not quite a bug, because some people
like it.) But as I understand it, it's hard behavior to change because of
the intricacies of what python library is doing what at that exact second.

Me, I just have a short list of local servers.

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