use yum install *package-name* Mathew Snyder Systems Administrator Network+ ServerVault TechOps mjinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I've been away from RedHat-based distros for a while, but I need to test > a commercial app which requires FC3 or FC4, so today I set up an FC4 > machine using .iso's freshly downloaded from a mirror. > > I did a base "server" install and all seemed to go well, but somehow I > managed to leave out X11 support, which our app needs, so I'm trying to > install it using up2date. > > Well, just about anything I try to do with up2date fails, and each time > I try I tend to get different errors. A few samples: > > " > There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed > out')> > " > > " > There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (104, 'Connection reset > by peer')> > " > > " > There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: > > An HTTP error occurred: > URL: > http://linux.admin.uillinois.edu/pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386///openssl-0.9.7f-7.10.i686.rpm > Status Code: 403 > Error Message: Forbidden > " > > > ...and so on. This happens whether I try to do "up2date --nox --list", > "up2date --nox --install xorg-x11", "up2date --nox -u", or just about > anything else. I can't find any pattern to the errors; trying the same > thing twice in a row has yet to produce the same error twice. > > Sometimes the error message directs me to /var/log/up2date, for example: > > [...] > initRepo > bytes=440-35945 > initRepo > bytes=440-25242 > An error has occurred: > exceptions.IndexError > See /var/log/up2date for more information > > But in that log file I find what looks to me like a Python traceback, but > nothing in it suggests anything meaningful to me. > > Since I've gotten lots of 403 and 404 errors, I wonder: is there a > problem currently with a lot of Fedora mirrors? I've gotten these from > several different servers, so I don't think it's one corrupt mirror > someplace. When I do get errors from the same server twice, it tends to > be complaining about two different URL's. I thought I might be tripping > over mirrors in the midst of re-seeding themselves or something, but the > trouble has been persisting now for several hours. > > I've tried reinstalling the system from scratch, thinking there might > have been some database corruption or some such; no difference. > > So now I'm stuck. Anybody have any idea what might be wrong? > > Thanks, > --michael >
