Jerry Sloan wrote: > I am having trouble getting new updates for through up2date and yum. > When trying to use up2date it hangs getting headers and when using yum I > get this: > > [root@linuxbird jerry]# yum update > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base > Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable) > retrygrab() failed for: > > http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > retrygrab() failed for: Can you actually reach this site with your browser? I had this error once because I had http_proxy defined as an environment variable. But yum error messages are really bad. What is a "failover method"? Is there a word "failover" in English? (Webster's Dictionary doesn't know of it.) I guess you could try "yum -d 3 update" or some number instead of 3. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
