Re: 'yum update' error - Cannot retrieve repository metadata

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Andrew Wheal wrote:

> I ran 'urlgrabber 
> http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/5/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml' and got 
> the output:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/urlgrabber", line 124, in ?
>   main()
> File "/usr/bin/urlgrabber", line 120, in main
>   filename = urlgrab(url,filename=file,**kwargs)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 602, in 
> urlgrab
>   return default_grabber.urlgrab(url, filename, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 934, in 
> urlgrab
>   return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 852, in 
> _retry
>   r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 920, in 
> retryfunc
>   fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1008, in 
> __init__
>   self._do_open()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1091, in 
> _do_open
>   fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1220, in 
> _make_request
>   raise URLGrabError(4, _('IOError: %s') % (e, ))
> urlgrabber.grabber.URLGrabError: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 
> 'Connection timed out')>
>
> What does this exactly mean?
>

are you using a proxy? Maybe a transparent one?

-sv