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

I am not aware of using a proxy, the server is using my normal home internet 
connection and I have never had to set up anything to use a proxy before 
now.

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From: "Seth Vidal" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 11:52 PM
To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Yum] '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
>
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