yum update failing (problem with download.fedora.us)?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 22:21 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:

> Andrew Farris wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:23 -0500, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> > 
> >> All day long yum update is failing, is there a problem with
> >> download.fedora.us?
> > 
> > Probably... too many people are using the main mirror and it timed out.
> > Configure an alternate mirror.  This faq will probably help.
> > http://fedora.artoo.net/
> > 
> > It is normal for yum or up2date to fail on not downloading all the
> > headers sometimes, especially when not using an alternate mirror.
> > Ideally only mirrors would use the redhat servers.
> > 
> 
> No, there is something really wrong with yum.  I can't seem to track it down
> yet.  It keeps getting an exception
> 
> I added some debug to urlgrabber.py.  Here's what is happening:
> TRY #1:
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1.90/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
> urlgrab:
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1.90/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info /var/cache/yum/stable/header.info
> 1 0 None None None
> urlib2.urlopen:
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1.90/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info
> EXCEPTION: [Errno 7] HTTP Error (BadStatusLine):

This is an error we've recently caught in yum's interaction with urllib
in python 2.3. Get the latest yum daily from rawhide/development and I
think you'll find the problem fixed.

-sv