Yum extremely slow

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 03 July 2004 07:07, Markku Kolkka wrote:
>Gene Heskett kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 3.
>
>heinäkuuta 2004 12:34):
>> On Saturday 03 July 2004 04:03, Florin Andrei wrote:
>> >Use a mirror instead of the overloaded master site.
>>
>> And (probably stupid question) where might a list of these
>> mirrors be found?
>
>http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
>
Mmmm, I added a few more of the mirrors with the 'baseurl' syntax, to 
the [Updates-Released] block, but this is as far as I get:
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[root at coyote root]# yum update

Unable to find pid  <<--this is new, wtf?
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
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And its been sitting there for about 3 minutes.  No further network 
activity other than something is doing an outbound query at 30 second 
intervals.

Ah, it exited, with this error:
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Damaged or Bad header.info from Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info 
on a repository.
[root at coyote root]#
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I've noted that for several of those sites that I've browsed, the only 
fedora is 2, 1 is not being mirrored at these other sites.  Has FC1 
reached its end of life or something?  Over the last month its gone 
from pretty dependable to spotty, to totally non-existant for the 
last 3 days now.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
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