On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:10 +0200, Zorg wrote: > 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. I had that until I followed some advice about modifying the /etc/yum.conf file, thus: add the following line in the list of [main] options: timeout=16 I find no mention of "timeout" as an option in the man file, but it did the trick. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.