Annoying issue during fedora update...

07-12-2009	#1 (permalink)
rafael1122 Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2	Annoying issue during fedora update... 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

07-12-2009	#2 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Check the contents of files stored in /etc/yum.repos.d folder. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

07-13-2009	#3 (permalink)
penguinking Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 5	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.

07-13-2009	#4 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	You can use cat command to view contents of files and nano command to edit those, if necessary. Code: cd /etc/yum.repos.d cat <file_name> su - nano <file_name> Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

07-13-2009	#5 (permalink)
penguinking Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 5	^ Thanks, though I don't know what I'm supposed to edit. I did: Code: 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.

07-13-2009	#6 (permalink)
penguinking Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 5	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.')

07-13-2009	#7 (permalink)
Drunk_Mexican Just Joined! Join Date: May 2008 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 49	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-$basearch [gary@localhost yum.repos.d]$

07-13-2009	#8 (permalink)
penguinking Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 5	^ 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.

07-13-2009

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Originally Posted by 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.

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.

07-13-2009	#10 (permalink)
daark.child Trusted Penguin Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: South Yorks, UK Posts: 4,067	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.

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