Re: yum rhn timeout error

I'm sorry Pete, I misunderstood your question.  For some reason I though you 
had your own repository server (not RedHat's) and you were trying to use one 
of your RHEL clients to download packages from your own server.  I meant to 
run createrepo on the server, not on the client.  My apologies...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Huskey" <[email protected]>
To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Yum] 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
>>
>>
>>   [email protected]
>>   http://pkh.caltech.edu
>>   M/C: 139-74
>>   work #: (626) 395-2843
>>
>>
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