On 18/11/2007, Dan Davison <davison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a problem involving yum failing to download package data from repositories. > > For example > > ------ > /etc/yum.repos.d# yum install ipw3945-kmdl > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Setting up Install Process > Setting up repositories > dries [1/1] > http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dries/fedora/fc5/i386/dries/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> > Trying other mirror. > ------- > > However I can ping ftp.freshrpms.net with no problem, and wget downloads the repomd.xml file > almost instantaneously. This problem seems to occur with all the repositories listed in > /etc/yum.repos.d. It only occurs at home; over my network at work (a university network) there > is no problem. I have switched ISPs (for a different reason...) and the problem remained. Perhaps you've configured a bad/disabled proxy? > As a posibly related aside, why does yum not respond to an interrupt signal sent using <ctrl>-c > during its attempts to download these files? Historical API-related reasons. Newer versions support this.
