Le Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:01:32 +0100 James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit: > zorglub78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > When I try to update packages, yum blocks on glibc-common with timeout for > > every server. > > Also, when I try to download it with firefox from fedora site, it blocks. > > > > Why this? > > Oh dear. Sorry to hear about that. > > glibc-common is a huge package (60 MB uncompressed, 15 MB compressed on > x86_64) that provides a lot of general resources for a Linux system. So > it's not surprising that it might take a long time to download. On a > dial-up connection, for example, it would take over an hour to download > even if you had a really fast modem and a fast and reliable site. I have a DSL connection and no problems to download huge files (full OpenOffice for example) with or without yum. > > But you should be able to download it from one site or another -- > eventually. You might try looking at > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html and selecting a mirror > site close to you that you think will be reliable. You should be able > to use Firefox on any of them. Alternatively, put an appropriate line in > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo. It fails with th following messages (just an extract): (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:06 http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora-core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:06 http://mirror.web-ster.com/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/distributions/fedora/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. http://fedora.arcticnetwork.ca/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:58:35 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.54 (FreeBSD) PHP/4.3.11 Content-Length: 255 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://dl.atrpms.net/mirrors/fedoracore/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://ftp.upjs.sk/pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:06 http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. (1/1): glibc-common-2.3.5 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:07 http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out Trying other mirror. Error Downloading Packages: glibc-common - 2.3.5-10.3.i386: failure: glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm from updates-released: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. /etc/yum.conf has no changes since install from scratch (fedora core 4 DVD). /etc/yum.repos.d has only one addition: [crash-hat] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - CrashHat baseurl=http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/$releasever enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/Petr.Kristof-GPG-KEY I Have tried a download with lftp and wget (from fedora.redhat.com), but blocks too... Thanks for any hints, Luc
