Annoying issue during fedora update...

[rafael1122]

Hi all ,

last night fedora came up to me with a message that there`re 24 updates available...
so i opened the "software update" and and clicked "install update"...
the problem is the downloading speed is extremely slow ... it actually has (0 kb/s) speed most of the time !

so i tried "yum check-update" and "yum update"...when it comes to downloading almost all of the mirrors give a "http error 404" and others give another errors...notice that i`ve already installed the fastest mirror plug in
i tired yumex as well...same problem ...

so i guess it`s a mirrors problem...unfortunately i have no idea how to edit or add another mirrors...

i`m using fedora 11 of course
so can anyone help me please

thx

[devils casper]

Check the contents of files stored in /etc/yum.repos.d folder.

[penguinking]

devils casper, I'm afraid to ask, but how the heck do you even open /etc/yum.repos.d folder? I can cd there from the command line but don't know where to go from there.

Btw, I am having this exact same issue. I left my computer on overnight and it still was only halfway done, and then suddenly it stopped updating altogether. I did a yum update as root user and got the same 404 issues as the OP. I am running the following version of fedora: vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586. My system is a 3GHz Core 2 Duo on a Gigabyte P35 board and NVIDIA 8800GT.

[devils casper]

You can use cat command to view contents of files and nano command to edit those, if necessary.

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
cat <file_name>
su - 
nano <file_name>

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.

[penguinking]

^ Thanks, though I don't know what I'm supposed to edit. I did:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
ls
cat fedora-updates.repo

I'd post the output from fedora-updates.repo, but of course I still can't post URLs.

[penguinking]

Yeah, I literally cannot update anything at all, I have 200+ updates and I keep getting the same tired, stupid failure notices on something that really should be cake. For example, the following:

Errors were encountered while downloading packages.
grubby-6.0.87-1.fc11.i586: failure: grubby-6.0.87-1.fc11.i586.rpm from updates: (256, 'No more mirrors to try.')
farsight2-0.0.12-1.fc11.i586: failure: farsight2-0.0.12-1.fc11.i586.rpm from updates: (256, 'No more mirrors to try.')
12:dhclient-4.1.0-22.fc11.i586: failure: dhclient-4.1.0-22.fc11.i586.rpm from updates: (256, 'No more mirrors to try.')
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.20-2.fc11.i586: failure: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.20-2.fc11.i586.rpm from updates: (256, 'No more mirrors to try.')
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.15-3.fc11.i586: failure: gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.15-3.fc11.i586.rpm from updates: (256, 'No more mirrors to try.')
gdb-6.8.50.20090302-33.fc11.i586: failure: gdb-6.8.50.20090302-33.fc11.i586.rpm from updates: (256, 'No more mirrors to try.')

[Drunk_Mexican]

Hey I have the same problem as my desktop runs Fedora 11. I know the OP cannot post URL's but I have the same problem. I apologize as I do not mean to highjack this thread. Bottom line is that "yum" is broken and it broke yesterday. There is a thread about it here Todays updates error - Page 7 - FedoraForum.org

Bug reports are flowing in and I'm sure the Fedora team is on top of it. There are a couple of specific work arounds there but for the most part Fedora people are P. the F. off. Everyone is very touchy there about this issue. Anyway I know I haven't been much help but...

If it does help here is my out put:

[gary@localhost ~]$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d
[gary@localhost yum.repos.d]$ ls
adobe-linux-i386.repo
fedora-rawhide.repo
fedora.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-updates-testing.repo
livna.repo
rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo.rpmnew
rpmfusion-free.repo
rpmfusion-free.repo.rpmnew
rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
rpmfusion-free-updates.repo.rpmnew
rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo.rpmnew
rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo.rpmsave
rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
rpmfusion-nonfree.repo.rpmsave
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo.rpmsave
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo.rpmsave
[gary@localhost yum.repos.d]$ cat fedora-updates.repo
[updates]
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

[updates-debuginfo]
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

[updates-source]
protect=yes
protect=yes
protect=yes
name=Fedora $releasever - Updates Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
[gary@localhost yum.repos.d]$

[penguinking]

^ That's great to hear though because, as a relative Linux newbie myself, I thought I was going mad with all the problems I was having with Yum. As long as it's very temporary I'm fine with it. Terrible timing for me personally, I just learned what yum was yesterday and so I must have caught the beginning and (hopefully) end of it sometime in the next few hours/days.

And thanks a lot for the update Drunk_Mexican.

EDIT: Btw, as of this very minute they're still having mirror problems. Hopefully in the next 24 hours it'll be fixed.

[Drunk_Mexican]

^ That's great to hear though because, as a relative Linux newbie myself, I thought I was going mad with all the problems I was having with Yum. As long as it's very temporary I'm fine with it. Terrible timing for me personally, I just learned what yum was yesterday and so I must have caught the beginning and (hopefully) end of it sometime in the next few hours/days.

And thanks a lot for the update Drunk_Mexican.

EDIT: Btw, as of this very minute they're still having mirror problems. Hopefully in the next 24 hours it'll be fixed.

Well I don't know when it will be fixed but I would assume sometime Monday. FYI, I don't really think Fedora is a newbie friendly distro because it runs a lot of new software. Fedora is notoriously buggy. It is what the Linux world will be using next year. I use it because I like to see the latest and greatest and sometimes the trade off for that is problems like this and I have a lot of computers so I can devout one to Fedora.

[daark.child]

Sometimes mirrors are slow to sync properly with the main download locations, so if you ever have download problems, just wait several hours or a day and try again.