yum update problem

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 12:08, Ahmed Abdel-Aliem wrote:
> i have just installed fedora core 4 on my new laptop,
> the installation went smooth
> now i am using yum to update the system.
> and while yum downloading the headers i got this error :
>
> php-5.0.4-10.5.i386.rpm   100% |=========================|  18 kB    00:03
> ---> Package php.i386 0:5.0.4-10.5 set to be updated
> ---> Downloading header for ghostscript to pack into transaction set.
> ghostscript-7.07-41.i386. 100% |=========================|  88 kB    00:18
> http://ayo.us5.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/RPMS/ghostscript-7
>.07-41.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
> Trying other mirror.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 15, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 113, in main
>     (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
>   File "__init__.py", line 319, in buildTransaction
>   File "depsolve.py", line 170, in resolveDeps
>   File "depsolve.py", line 130, in populateTs
>   File "__init__.py", line 639, in downloadHeader
>   File "repos.py", line 605, in get
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line
> 414, in urlgrab
>     return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line
> 392, in _mirror_try
>     mirrorchoice = self._get_mirror(gr)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line
> 290, in _get_mirror
>     return gr.mirrors[gr._next]
> IndexError: list index out of range
> [root at localhost doublea]#
>
>
>
> can anyone help me with that and tell me what's wrong or how i will fix it?
>
> any help would be appreciated,
> thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Ahmed Abdel-Aliem
> Web Developer
> www.SafariStudio.net
> +20101108551
> registered Linux user number 382789

just a guess. Have you tried running:
yum clean all

and then yum update
?