Hi David,
Thanks for the tips...
> Any suggestions?
Very busy mirrors ?
Aborted mirroring process ?
Initial mirror selected had old or bad metadata, and hence every correct
download is rejected ?
That was my first thought a few days ago, when I first saw this,
however I am now having doubts about that because:
1) It has been ongoing for several days (not a strong reason, I'll admit)
2) This started with a repeated failure attempting to fetch an
OpenOffice.org RPM. After I did the "yum clean all", it is now
failing on a kde related RPM.
3) Each time it fails, it chooses a different mirror
4) I can fetch the offending RPM fine using wget at the command line.
I have seen timeouts from extras repos, and even dir lists that take
more than 10 minutes to complete.
Packet trace the whole yum process: you can see if the client or server
stops doing the right thing.
yum -d 15 and post the "whole thing", maybe as attach or on a web site
if it is very big.
I just kicked it off, we'll see what it looks like after lunch.
> $ sudo yum clean cache
>
> Returns an error:
> Error: invalid clean argument: 'cache'
>
> despite the fact that the man page claims "yum clean cache" should
> work (and has worked in the past with older versions of yum).
- clean cache has been split up into smaller parts:
clean metadata {ie downloaded repodata}
clean dbcache {sqlite db cache}
Note to self -- file a bugzilla report that the yum man page is out of date.
> If I were to fetch an RPM manually, could I verify that it is correct
> somehow and then place it someplace at which yum would be happy with
> it?
rpm --checksig my-dud-downloaded-package.rpm ?
Everything checks out fine. Can I place the RPM someplace where yum
can find it and see if that makes things happier? (I just want to do
this for a test -- I don't want to do it for all 14,425,332,864
different packages which would want to be updated, given how long it's
been since my last update. Perhaps if I were to just update yum,
assuming that's the source of my problem, I could continue from
there).
Hmmm... that's an idea... I'll try a "yum update yum" when the -d 15
attempt finishes.
--wpd
