yum stuck trying to connect to Stanford

Per Bothner per at bothner.com
Mon Apr 28 17:45:31 UTC 2008


seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:13 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
>> When I do a 'yum upgrade' (on F9), I get the attached result.
>> I looks like it's trying to connect to the Stanford network.
>> And indeed yesterday I was at Stanford with my laptop, and
>> it did try to connect to Stanford's wireless network, which is
>> one of those that requires a code/logon, which I don't have.
>>
>> But now I'm home again, and I still get this weird error.
>> This is even after re-booting twice, stopping NetworkManager,
>> and manually bringing up eth0, which I connecting through just fine.
>>
>> How do I "unstick" yum?
> 
> run:
>    yum clean expire-cache
> 
> see if that fixes it up for you.

Yes, it did - thanks!

(I now get "Package 
gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1-0.2008.03.26.7.fc9.i386.rpm is not signed"
but presumably that will get fixed shortly.)
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