On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:17:02AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On 14/01/2008, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I know have 2 mirrors to check and both error out when they > > appear to stop getting much past 2.5 mb of the total 7.7 mb required. > > Odd because I manually d/l the darn thing and it IS 7.7 Mb. > > > > Seems I need to figure out what is causing this problem. > > It is strong evidence that a partial and possibly corrupted download > still sits in /var/cache/yum/freshrpms/packages/ prior to your test. > Yum attempts at continueing the download by fetching only the > remainder instead of starting from scratch. It's a problem it doesn't > escape from automatically. You need to do the necessary cleanup > yourself (or point it to a working mirror if the mirror is the > culprit). Another possibility that Karl may have overlooked: if there is no more space on the partition on which /var/cache/yum is located, you will get a similar output, and a partial, corrupted download. yum's error messages are not always very clear, unfortunately. David Jansen
