[K12OSN] yum problems on dialup

[Eric Harrison]

Have you tried increasing the timeout value? It defaults to 30 seconds,
which may be too short for dial-up. Try editing /etc/yum.conf and add
something like:

	timeout=180

-Eric


Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:53 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> -snip-
> 
>> I have a stock-standard 4.4.1 K12LTSP install, and using the supplied
>> yum conf files and repos.  I've had to disable the K12 repo entirely
>> because it never works for me, and when trying to run yum to upgrade or
>> install new apps more often than not the other repos also time out and
>> the operation fails with messages such as:
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Trying other mirror.
>> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 312 kB
>> 01:14
>> http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
>> Trying other mirror
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 	.. and so, and so on for all repos until no more mirrors left.
>>
>> 	Sometimes I get a 404 error, such as:
> 
> -snip-
> 
>> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base
>> Error importing repomd.xml from base: Error: could not parse
>> file //var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml
>> --------------------------------- 
>>      
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on this?  Or, is dialup always going to be a
>> problem with my new install?  I had occasional trouble with my old yum
>> setup, but never as consistently bad as this.  So far I've only managed
>> a couple of new apps installed with yum.  
>>
> 
> I looked into this some more and followed the directions given at the
> foot of this page:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Mirrors
> to add a local mirrors for fedora-extras, at least.
> 
> Now I consistently get an error that yum failed to parse the XML file:
> 
> -------------------
> cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: extras
> Error importing repomd.xml from extras: Error: could not parse
> file //var/cache/yum/extras/repomd.xml
> -------------------
> 
> I even tried reverting to using apt, but of course it doesn't come setup
> with decent repos anymore.  When I did configure the livna repo, apt
> just wanted to remove packages to be able to add new ones.  I am NOT
> going down that path again, so forget it, apt :-(
> 
> Gavin.
>