yum stuck trying to connect to Stanford

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:48 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> 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.
> 
> If he's using fastestmirror it may also be stuck on the prior decision to use 
> standford right?  Then it would be good to also run?
> yum clean plugins
> 
> Or would fastestmirror automatically abandon a fastest it cannot get to?  I've 
> never had it stuck on an inaccessible network so I'm not sure.
> 

yum clean expire-cache will nuke the mirrorlist and I'm pretty sure
fastest-mirror will refresh itself if mirrorlist is new.

-sv