updates are all failling.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 12 Jul 2009 at 8:17, Aaron Konstam wrote:

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> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 14:52 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> > Just wait a while and try again.  I did a yum update a few minutes ago
> > and it failed on the first dozen mirrors and then found one.  So I
> > would try again in a few minutes. It takes a while for everything to
> > propagate to the mirrors.

Some files are definitely missing from all mirrors. I used yumex, and was 
able to select all the listed updates in groups until I discovered all the ones 
that were there, and that just left the ones that were missing or required 
missing ones as a dependency.


> > 
> > Paolo
> As of 8am CDT the following three things are happening to me:
> 1. Running yum update
> causes every mirror access to fail
> 2. polycykit seems to be download all 30 updates but then fails to be
> bale to update grubby, gdb and mkinitrd
> 3. If I run:
> yum --exclude=grubby\*  --exclude=gdb\*   --exclude=mkinitrd\*  update
> the excludes are ignored and grubby, gdb and mkinitrd are attempted to
> be download but that fails and the whole upgrade fails.
> 
> What is going on? I am frustrated.
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Aaron Konstam
> > <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >         Package informed me their were updates waiting but trying the
> >         update
> >         ended in a error about a repo that could not be reached for
> >         rpm with
> >         grubby in its name.
> >         
> >         Trying yum update I found 31 rpms to be updated but for every
> >         one I got
> >         a message that mirror could not be found.
> >         
> >         Anyone else have this problem and know a solution. The
> >         internet is up on
> >         the machine..
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