[K12OSN] yum problems on dialup

[Gavin Chester]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:04 -0700, Eric Harrison wrote:
> 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

Eric, brilliant as usual! :-)  I was going to ask "how do I increase the
timeout" but you answered it for me anyway.  That timeout setting has
done the trick on this slow dialup connection and serves as a 'heads up'
to anyone else similarly suffering.

Now, I just have to tackle that issue of the XML file not parsing
correctly when I use the repo 'extras'.  Perhaps the first thing I
should do is restore the original repo file by removing my pasted-in
Australian mirror for that repo.  See how I go :-) 



> 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.
> > 
> 
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