Re: yum rhn timeout error

Hi John
Im not familiar w createrepo, so i may have done this incorrectly. I d/l'd the createrepo app from duke and ran 
createrepo -v /etc/yum.repo.d/
files were generated, but that didnt seem to make a difference when i reran yum update

I did examine the output'd primary.xml.gz file and it didnt appear to have much information.  I haven't successfully ran yum yet, so its likely that my local repository doesnt even exist yet. 

Does this make any sense?

thanks
pete

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:26:22AM -0800, John Lee wrote:
> MessageCan you try running createrepo and re-generate the metafiles for that particular repository?
> 
> i.e. createrepo -v /path/to/your/repodata/primary.xml.gz/
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Peter Kekenes-Huskey 
>   To: [email protected] 
>   Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:08 PM
>   Subject: [Yum] yum rhn timeout error
> 
> 
>   Hi
>   I'm trying to do a package update using yum for my RHEL5 system (still have an active subscription).  In a nutshell, the program hangs indefinitely when it attempts to download primary.xml.gz.  I've tried disabling my firewalls to no avail.  I can ftp to the repository at ftp.redhat.com.  Has anyone encountered this issue?  I've copied the output below and included my .repo info:
> 
>   [root@nietzsche huskeypm]# yum install kernel-devel xorg-x11-server-sdk pkgconf
>   ig
>   Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>   Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
>   Setting up Install Process
>   Setting up repositories
>   rhel-i386-client-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
>   Reading repository metadata in from local files
>   primary.xml.gz              0% |                         | 8.0 kB    03:43 ETA
>   ... 
>   Error: failed to retrieve repodata/primary.xml.gz from rhel-i386-client-5
>   error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
> 
>   [rhel-debuginfo]
>   name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug
>   baseurl=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/$releasever/en/os/$base
>   arch/Debuginfo/
>   enabled=0
>   gpgcheck=1
>   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
> 
>   thanks!
> 
>   Peter Michael Kekenes-Huskey
>   California Institute of Technology
>   Department of Chemistry
>   PhD Student
> 
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