On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 07:54:24PM +0800, Msquared wrote: > I am using a 28800bps modem connection to the internet, and I frequently > get this error when fetching the filelists and so on, especially on large > filelists.xml.gz files: > http://ftp.udl.es/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out > Trying other mirror. > It will try a whole lot of mirrors, each generating the same error > message, before I will give up and fetch the .xml.gz files manually via > wget. After I do this, the rest of the updates work fine. > Is there somewhere I can tweak the network timeout parameters for yum? There's an undocumented "timeout" option -- put "timeout=40" in /etc/yum.conf. (Or try even higher.) Please let me know if this helps. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.
