At 7:05 PM +0930 6/5/07, Tim wrote: >On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 23:16 -0700, Paul Erickson wrote: >> For some reason I am having trouble with yum on one of my FC6 boxes. >> It is an older, slower machine, but I don't have any trouble browsing >> the web on it, but yum is very very slow, and when I try to update or >> install on it, I keep getting error messages like the following. >> >> # yum update >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin >> Setting up Update Process >> Setting up repositories >> Reading repository metadata in from local files >> Resolving Dependencies >> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. >> ---> Downloading header for cups to pack into transaction set. >> http://fedora.mirror.iweb.ca/core/updates/6/i386/cups-1.2.8-1.fc5.i386.rpm: >> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Content-Type: text/html > >You have tried several mirrors resturning 404 errors - those servers >didn't have the requested file, at the address the client requested it. >This happens from time to time, thanks to mirrors being out of sync (not >being ready). Eventually yum should find one that's okay, but sometimes >you might have to try a few times, or wait a while for the mirrors to >finish sorting themselves out. No, he has a problem with his upgrade from FC5 to FC6. It's trying to get .fc5 packages from an FC6 updates repo. There should not be any such packages in updates. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
